NDO/VNA – Fourteen new COVID-19 infection cases were confirmed on August 12 evening, including one in Hanoi and 13 others related to Da Nang city, reported the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control. 

NDO – The Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Quang Nam Province on August 12 received VND2.2 billion in donations from local businesses to support the central province in its COVID-19 fight. 

NDO/VNA – More than 240 Vietnamese citizens were brought home on a flight of budget carrier Vietjet Air on August 12. 

NDO/VNA – Three more COVID-19 patients, two in Quang Ngai and one in Da Nang, were declared to have fully recovered from the disease on August 12, bringing the number of recoveries in Vietnam to 402. 

NDO - Natural disasters have occurred in an extreme and unpredictable manner in recent times. Notably, the northern mountainous provinces have suffered increasingly serious personal and property losses due to flash floods and landslides caused by heavy rains over the past few months. 

NDO – The Hanoi Youth Union recently launched an online knowledge contest on Vietnam’s ASEAN Chair Year 2020. 

NDO - More than 340 Vietnamese citizens were flown home from the US on July August 10-11. 

NDO/VNA - Vietnam reported three more COVID-19 cases on August 12 morning, taking the national total to 866, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control. 

NDO/VNA – A COVID-19 patient in the central city of Da Nang died in the early morning of August 12, bringing the total fatalities to 17, according to Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Truong Son. 

NDO – The Ministry of Health has urged local authorities across the nation to strengthen supervision and step up measures to prevent COVID-19 cross-infection in local medical facilities. 

NDO – Those who have been tested negative for SARS-CoV-2 using rapid test should not be subjective as the method may lead to false results, Professor, Dr. Nguyen Anh Tri has affirmed. 

NDO/VNA – The Health Ministry announced that 16 new cases of COVID-19 were detected in the past 12 hours, bringing the total number to 863 as of 6 pm on August 11.  

NDO/VNA - The central city of Da Nang, now Vietnam’s major COVID-19 hotspot, will continue with social distancing measures in line with Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s Directive No 16/CT-TTg dated March 31. 

NDO/VNA - The Central Power Corporation (EVNCPC) saw 1,637 customers installing roof-top solar power systems with a combined capacity of 76.729MWp in July.