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First identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, the COVID-19 pandemic has violently expanded in a global scale and caused so much formidable damage and loses. Every single day, nations across the world register an alarming increasing number of new cases and deaths due to coronavirus, which arises insecurity, agony, and fear among societies. Hence, those severe and intense consequences have definitely affected the way people comprehend this pandemic and the language they utilize to describe it. In the light of cognitive linguistics, this study focuses on the recent emergence of conceptual metaphor "COVID-19 IS A WAR" through collecting and analyzing its linguistic manifestations found in articles published from prestigious Vietnamese and English e-newspapers during the first half 2021. The aim of this study is to explore further how similar and different the domain "COVID-19" are conceptualized, and its findings will contribute to strengthen the theory of cognitive linguistics, and benefit foreign language teaching and learning, and translation as well.