Currently, there has been no guideline to prescribe Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine to prevent Covid-19 - the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, said Director of the National Lung Hospital Professor Nguyen Viet Nhung.

Because dwellers in Hanoi have lately bought Tamiflu for self-medication, Deputy Director the National Hospital of Pediatrics Tran Minh Dien said that Tamiflu was a prescription-only medicine in treatment of pneumonia complications.

Following the rumor about a strange virus causing myocarditis going viral on social networks, Director of Hanoi Preventive Healthcare Center Dr. Nguyen Nhat Cam denied the rumor on October 27.