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After winning group B with all five wins, the Vietnamese national football team will take on group A runner-up Laos in the semifinal game tomorrow at the Southeast Asian U-19 Football Championship taking place in Indonesia.

In the group stage, U-19 Vietnam defeated all rivals coming from Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar, and Brunei, scoring a total of 15 goals and conceding 5 goals.

Though the Vietnamese team twice beat Laos 3-1 and 5-0 during a training session last month, U-19 Vietnam’s coach Graechen Guillaume was modest before the semifinal clash at Gelora Delta Stadium, saying, “We respect U-19 Laos.”

He added, “They had careful preparation before this tournament. Laotian players have well built stature and a highly competitive spirit. Their strength is at the front line where they have a big forward.”

Laotian players are also highly motivated when fighting for the ball, the coach said.

“However, Laotian players often get exhausted in the second half of the game. Though Vietnam is a little bit stronger than Laos, anything can happen in football,” Guillaume said.

“The team who scores more goals will advance to the final match.”

The other semifinal game will be the clash between the host Indonesia and East Timor.

Vietnam’s Ministry of Health confirmed 11 domestically-transmitted COVID-19 infections on Tuesday, with Hai Duong Province being still the country’s largest epicenter.

Seven of the new patients had their samples taken on Sunday, the other four on Monday, the ministry elaborated.

All 11 cases had been in contact with infected patients and had thus been quarantined on Sunday.

They were logged in Hai Duong, located in northern Vietnam, the health ministry noted.

The ministry announced six recoveries on Tuesday, taking the total number of recovered patients to 1,898.

Vietnam had spent nearly two months detecting zero community cases before it found the first one on January 27 and confirmed it one day later, according to the health ministry’s data.

A total of 868 local cases have been confirmed in 13 provinces and cities since then, making it the most serious wave to have struck Vietnam after the first-ever COVID-19 patient was announced in the country on January 23, 2020.

In this latest wave, 684 cases were registered in Hai Duong, 61 in Quang Ninh Province, 27 in Gia Lai Province, 35 in Hanoi, five in Bac Ninh Province, two in Bac Giang Province, 36 in Ho Chi Minh City, two in Hoa Binh Province, one in Ha Giang Province, three in Dien Bien Province, six in Binh Duong Province, four in Hai Phong, and two in Hung Yen Province.

Vietnam has recorded 2,472 coronavirus cases as of Tuesday night, including 1,561 local infections and 35 virus-related fatalities, according to the Ministry of Health’s data.

The dead had suffered from comorbid medical problems, including 31 in Da Nang, three in Quang Nam Province, and one in Quang Tri Province.

The government is quarantining over 58,700 people who had contact with infected patients or made an entry from virus-plagued places.

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Strict social distancing measures will be lifted from the northern province of Hai Duong, Vietnam’s COVID-19 epicenter at present, from Wednesday, as the locality will focus on pandemic control while boosting socio-economic development.

Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Pham Xuan Thang said at a meeting on Monday that extending the social distancing period would be unnecessary.

The province will enter a new state and concentrate on the double goal of fighting COVID-19 and promoting socio-economic development, Thang continued.

The COVID-19 situation in Hai Duong has been controlled well during the past 33 days, the official added.

From 0:00 on Wednesday, strict social distancing measures under the prime minister’s directive No. 16 will end, and 12 localities in the province will be divided into two groups with suitable pandemic prevention and control regulations.

Kim Thanh and Cam Giang Districts, Hai Duong City, and Kinh Mon Town shall implement precautious measures under the PM’s directive No. 15.

The directive specifies that a gathering or meeting with more than 20 people in one room or a gathering of more than 10 people outside office buildings, schools, and hospitals is not allowed

People should keep a safe distance of at least two meters in public places, while non-essential business and services will remain closed.

All religious rites and activities with more than 20 participants in religious establishments as well as all cultural, sports, and recreational activities in public places are suspended.

Meanwhile, Binh Giang, Gia Loc, Nam Sach, Ninh Giang, Thanh Ha, Thanh Mien, Tu Ky Districts, and Chi Linh City will implement measures under the prime minister’s directive No. 19.

Accordingly, people must keep a distance of at least one meter from each other in public.

Non-essential businesses are allowed to reopen except for bars, karaoke shops, massage parlors, discos, and beauty salons.

Vietnam has logged 2,472 COVID-19 cases as of Tuesday morning, with 1,892 recoveries and 35 deaths, according to the Ministry of Health.

A total of 868 community-based infections have been recorded in 13 provinces and cities since January 27, of which 681 were in Hai Duong, making the province the country’s largest COVID-19 epicenter at the moment.

Social distancing measures were previously reinstated in Hai Duong from February 16.

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Entrants to Hanoi from certain districts and cities of Hai Duong Province, the current COVID-19 epicenter in Vietnam, will be required to self-isolate for 14 days for monitoring, according to the Hanoi Center for Disease Control (Hanoi CDC).

The direction was stated on Monday by Khong Minh Tuan, deputy director of the Hanoi CDC during a meeting of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control to review the state of COVID-19 transmission in Hai Duong.

According to Tuan, Hai Duong reported four cases of COVID-19 transmission on Saturday, all of whom are in isolated zones, while other cases of direct transmission from the infected have been quarantined.

Hai Duong has required its districts to comply with sets of COVID-19 prevention regulations.

Specifically, Hai Duong City, Kinh Mon Town, Cam Giang District, and Kim Thanh District will have to follow the prime minister’s directive No. 16, which requires safe distancing in public places and prohibits big social gatherings, until March 17.

As the risk of transmission from the four locales remains high, returnees to Hanoi from these places will be obliged to self-isolate and monitor their health for 14 days.

“Individuals who took COVID-19 tests with a negative result that came no more than three days earlier will be allowed to return to work and study right away,” Tuan added.

During the meeting, Nguyen Hong Dan, deputy director of the Hanoi Department of Labor, War Invalids, and Social Affairs, said requisite measures have been prepared to welcome students back to schools and universities under the department’s management, which is slated to start March 8.

The department has required schools and universities under its management to thoroughly fumigate their campuses.

Body temperature checkpoints and isolation rooms for suspected transmission cases have also been prepared, while mandatory mask wearing will be required for students.

“Students from outbreak sites must obtain negative COVID-19 test results and submit medical declarations to the authorities of residential areas as well as their education institutions,” Dan said.

Vietnam has recorded 2,472 coronavirus cases as of Tuesday morning, with 1,892 recoveries and 35 virus-related fatalities, according to the Ministry of Health’s data.

In the latest wave which started in late January, Hanoi recorded 35 cases, but it has so far gone two weeks without any new transmission.

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