The health department of the northern province Bac Giang on Sunday confirmed that one among the four students hospitalised due to serious anaphylactic shock reactions to COVID-19 vaccinations has died.

These days the city has been losing some prominent artists whose names have become attached to the art scene. People’s Artist and painter Truong Han Minh and veteran film director Tuong Le both died on Tuesday in HCM City.

On the evening of July 28, Vietnam announced 106 new Covid-19-related deaths in six provinces, bringing the total number of fatalities in the country to 630 cases.

Painter Le Thanh Thu, a leading artist in the fine arts of the South, died on July 16 in HCM City two days after testing positive for COVID-19.

Eighteen more COVID-19 deaths have brought the country's total death toll to 225, the Ministry of Health reported on July 16.

Three more COVID-19 patients have died in HCM City, Da Nang and Bac Giang taking the total number of fatalities to 105.

HCM City Police on Tuesday night sent officers to help staff in Chi Hoa Prison stamp out a riot among inmates days after the COVID-19 related death of a prisoner.

The Ministry of Health on Tuesday evening announced the 79th and 80th COVID-19 related deaths in Vietnam, both are elderly female patients with severe underlying medical conditions.