Test Kit

Vietnam’s coronavirus infections surpassed 16,000, including 79% detected in the fresh outbreak that flared up since late April.

Roche, which has been working in Vietnam since 1994, is producing dozens of millions of test kits per month.

The Covid-19 vaccine research and development project in Vietnam has shown positive progress with a fairly high immune response to the vaccine antigens.

Vietnam is revising current Covid-19 testing strategy to prepare for the resumption of international commercial flights to and from the country.

Danang decided to test its entire 1.1-million population for coronavirus as the risk of a wide spread increases.

Vietnam's test kits have been certified by the World Health Organization and the UK to be sold in Europe.

A longer stay-at-home period is believed to enable Hanoi to better identify infected cases and contain the virus.

Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City top the country's localities for the number of coronavirus cases and have several virus hot spots.

Since late January 2020, health agencies of the two countries have shared information and data to combat Covid-19.

Local health experts said that test kits would greatly help Vietnam deal with the situation.