As many as 670,000 employees lost their jobs in the first four months of 2020 due to the COVID-19 crisis, according to the Department of Employment under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

HCM City's proactive efforts on isolating people with COVID-19, tracking down their second- and third-hand contacts and providing treatment for those who are infected has resulted in a lower incidence of cases,

The number of recipients of unemployment benefits nationwide rose by 9.11 percent to 378,000 people during the first quarter of 2020 as a large amount of businesses have been forced to suspend operation or go bankrupt by COVID-19.

Six months ago, 22-year-old Nguyen Ha Linh received her bachelor degree in international affairs from the Academy of Journalism and Communication and expressed her exciting feeling of, finally, being free from her so-called "study career"

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese education is facing the pressure of teacher redundancies while more and more pedagogical students have been unemployed after graduation. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – It is just after seven in the evening when Nguyen Minh Trung gets home. It's been a long day, more than 12 hours, in fact, and he's exhausted.

 VietNamNet Bridge – More and more university graduates return to school to study further for master’s degree, simply because they cannot find stable jobs.

 VietNamNet Bridge - The number of foreign-invested (FDI) companies which no longer work at their registered offices, their investors left Vietnam, or communication with the investors have been lost has increased.

VietNamNet Bridge – They are members of the national football squad but they also suffer from the risk of unemployment like hundreds of other players.