Isolated living environments, well-structured communities and food self-sufficiency have turned villages and islands in central Việt Nam into safe havens against the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hà Nội is always a locality that face a high risk of COVID-19 outbreaks, Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam said on Wednesday, urging the city to keep vigilant and prepared so that it could made active effective steps in responding to the disease.

The Việt Nam Vaccination Joint Stock Company has set up a vaccination centre on National Route No 20 in Central Highlands Lâm Đồng Province’s Đức Trọng District.

Long Bien, Hanoi’s largest wholesale market with around 1,200 vending families, was locked down from Tuesday afternoon after a delivery person was found infected with Covid-19.

A VND760 billion ($33.14 million) package has been proposed to provide financial aid to those impacted by the pandemic in HCMC.

A support center with several outlets to provide necessities for poor people including factory workers will be set up in HCMC.

It is in challenging times that we see the best of people. And in Việt Nam, there is no shortage of do-gooders willing to help those in need. In Đắk Lắk volunteers and government officials are collected much-needed produce to send to localities hit hardest by the pandemic.

Hanoi will supply food to the poor and other vulnerable communities amid the ongoing Covid-19 social distancing order, the People's Committee said Sunday.

Phung Khoang and Minh Khai wholesale markets in Hanoi were shut down Sunday after two vendors contracted the new coronavirus.

Hà Nội authority has paid more attention to the work of collection, transportation and treatment of household waste in the city, especially in residential areas where COVID-19 patients or people suspected of being infected with SARS-CoV-2 reside.