Five major mobile service providers - Viettel, VinaPhone, MobiFone, Vietnamobile, and the virtual network I-Telecom blocked more than 89,600 mobile subscribers spreading spam calls in the last six months of 2020, according to the Department of Telecom under the Ministry of Information and Communications.

At the meeting with the National Council for Cultural Heritage on January 5, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam directed the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the council to promote the application of information technology, suggesting building a digital museum.

Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long has submitted a report to Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, proposing that inbound flights should be suspended or limited from countries and territories where new variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus are found.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) has negotiated with partners in the UK, the US, Russia, and China about purchasing COVID-19 vaccines.

Vietnam has marked a new imprint in the world medical map with the successful performance of the world’s first limb transplant from a live donor by doctors of the Central Military Hospital 108.

The Republic of Korea (RoK) was the top investor in education in Vietnam in the first 11 months of this year with 8.2 million USD, or 57 percent of the total FDI inflows in the sector.

Three first volunteers received the first shot of a dose of 50mcg of Nanocovax COVID-19 vaccine on December 26 morning.

Vietnam has not yet detected the new strain of coronavirus that has spread in the UK among legal immigrants, a health official affirmed on December 25.

The Prime Minister has issued a decision approving the "National Key Program for Mathematical Development in the period of 2021-2030" with the aim of developing Vietnamese Mathematics sustainably and strongly in all aspects.