VGP – Up to 19.4 million people out of 76.8 million smartphone users have downloaded Bluezone, a domestically developed contact-tracing mobile app to alert people who have interacted with COVID-19 patients, according to the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC).

VGP – The number of positive COVID-19 patients in Viet Nam remained at 989 as of 6:00 am of August 19, the National Steering Committee on COVID-19 Prevention and Control reported.

VGP – An addition of 19 more COVID-19 patients were declared fully recovered at the Ha Noi-based National Hospital for Tropical Diseases on Tuesday afternoon, including 18 returning from Equatorial Guinea and one returnee from Bangladesh.

VGP – The Ministry of Health reported a 51-year old woman in Da Nang died of COVID-19 and other diseases, taking Viet Nam’s COVID-19 death toll to 25.

VGP – A 61-year-old woman in Da Nang City’s Hoa Vang District became the 21st fatality related to SARS-CoV-2 in Viet Nam, reported Nguyen Trong Khoa, deputy head of the Ministry of Health’s special permanent division for Covid-19 fight in the city on August 14 morning.