PSNews - Recently, the Military Technical Institute handed over several supporting robots to Ho Chi Minh City, aiming to reduce human load in the fight against COVID-19. 

PSNews - The Ho Chi Minh Municipal Department of Information and Communications has just launched the application named Oxy 247 to help people and medical facilities conveniently track the real-time availability of hospital beds, oxygen cylinders and ventilators for COVID-19 patients.

More than 180 teams from universities and colleges in Vietnam and ASEAN member states will join the starting round of the 2021 ASEAN Student Contest on Information Security, which will be held virtually on October 9.

The robots took the charge of transporting food, medicine, necessities and other stuff from outside to patient rooms, taking trash from the rooms to garbage collection areas. They also talk to COVID-19 patients and send information about the situation to medical experts.

The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Day 2021, themed Empowering Innovations, will be held virtually on August 27 and 28 with a goal to promote AI research, development and application, helping to solve challenging problems in socio-economic development.

 Vietnam’s NanoDragon satellite has been officially transferred to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) after completing its final tests, said Pham Anh Tuan, director of the Vietnam National Space Center (VNSC) under the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology.

Vietnam recorded more than 3,900 cyberattacks in the first seven months of 2021, according to the Authority of Information Security (AIS) under the Ministry of Information and Communications.

PSNews – Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) citizens are now able to contact the local volunteer network for healthcare and welfare support through hotline 1022 – channel 4.

A conference to promote cooperation in information and technology between Vietnam and Australia took place virtually from August 10-12, attracting the participation of IT firms from both countries.

Vietnam has been listed in top 10 emerging markets in the global data centre market by ResearchAndMarkets, the world's leading market research store.

International internet traffic and speed in Vietnam have been back to normal after repairing work on the Asia America Gateway (AAG) undersea cable was completed.

The General Department of Taxation plans to debut its e-tax application for mobile devices, Etax-mobile, in August to facilitate taxpayers particularly amid the complicated developments of COVID-19.

An experience exchange on treatment and management during the COVID-19 pandemic combined with the introduction of post-COVID-19 recovery model for patients with severe pneumonia was organised at Pletnev hospital, Moscow.