The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has warned about a skin disease spread among cows and buffaloes in the country.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade on February 12 launched a website on the fight against the acute respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus (COVID-19) at http://hanhdong.moit.gov.vn/.

Vietnamese PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Indonesian President Joko Widodo emphasised the need to boost cooperation among countries in ASEAN to cope with coronavirus during their telephone talks on February 4.

The Ministry of Health will establish 40 emergency response teams to help deal with the quick spread of Coronavirus.

Vietnam is stepping measures to prevent the spread of the deadly coronavirus, which has killed more than 130 people since it was first detected in China’s Wuhan Province.

Nguyen Thi Thom, a 37-year-old woman, has died of H1N1 bird flu in Kon Tum Province, while 44 others who made physical contact with her have been isolated for testing.

A total of 764 new cases of dengue fever were discovered in Hanoi between October 28 and November 3, a fall of six cases in comparison to the previous week, according to Nguyen Nhat Cam, director of the Hanoi Center for Disease Control.

 A picture of large scale destruction is emerging in the Indonesian city of Palu, after a quake and tsunami struck on Friday.

Professor Nguyen Ba Duc, former director of the National Cancer Hospital K in Hanoi cum deputy head of Vietnam Cancer Association, said at a conference that cancer is one of most common cause of deaths in the world and in Vietnam,

 There has been an "alarming" rise in the number of working-age men and women having strokes, a charity has warned.

Residents told to relocate from dangerous building; Duong Chi Dung's brother receives prison sentence; Private hospitals struggle to attract new patients; Unregulated electric scooters raise risk of traffic accidents

 A strain of the polio virus has been found at an international airport in Brazil, but there are no human cases, the World Health Organization has said.

 Cyclonic storm Nari, the 11th hit Vietnam this year, had taken the lives of 27 people and caused economic losses of nearly 1.6 trillion VND in the central region.

 The Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) is forecasting an annual economic growth rate of 6.2 percent over the next two years will push Vietnam’s GDP per capita to US$2,300 by 2015.

Pilgrims are pickpocketed at Ba Chua Kho temple in Bac Ninh province. At the Perfume Pagoda in Hanoi, pilgrims are extremely crowded and they have to pay highly for services.

VietNamNet Bridge – Food mixed with chemicals will be placed at food processing plants, animal husbandry farms, hotels, bus and railway stations in 24 districts in Ho Chi Minh City--to kill brown rats that cause acute renal failure.