President Nguyen Xuan Phuc (Photo: VNA)

Mr. Phuc said that since the onset of COVID-19 one and a half years ago, leaders of the Party and State and people across Vietnam have recognized the important, indispensable role of the press in fighting the pandemic.

Reporters of many press agencies have accurately and promptly conveyed the Party and State's directions and decisions on disease prevention and control and accepted the risks of being on the frontline in quarantine areas and hotspots in order to update the public on pandemic developments, he said.