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COVID-19 Updates

— Vietnam recorded one imported COVID-19 case on Sunday afternoon, raising the national tally to 2,591 patients, with 2,308 recoveries and 35 virus-related deaths, according to the Ministry of Health’s data.

— As many as 45,140 people in Vietnam’s 19 provinces and cities had been vaccinated against COVID-19 as of Sunday, the health ministry said on Monday morning.

— The makeshift hospital for COVID-19 treatment No. 2 in northern Hai Duong Province was dissolved on Sunday, after the outbreak in the biggest hotspot of the latest coronavirus resurgence had been brought under control.

Society

— Police in Binh Chanh District in Ho Chi Minh City has confirmed the video spread on social media on Sunday capturing two traffic police officers beating two young men is genuine, explaining that the two policemen lost their temper to the two illegal racers’ profanity and insulting behaviors.

— Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper’s readers have complained about a large gathering of people on motorbikes making loud engine noise and causing street disorder on To Ky Street in Hoc Mon District in Ho Chi Minh City on Sunday afternoon.

— The firefighting police unit in Ho Chi Minh City has introduced Help 114, a mobile app that allows users to send fire alarms for rapid response to fire-related accidents.

— A fine of VND1-3 million (US$43-130) will be imposed on anyone cruelly beating or torturing pets in Vietnam from April 20.

— The Directorate of Water Resources warned that with the forecast level of saltwater intrusion in March and April this year, it is essential to prevent the possibility of water shortage for about 40,000 hectares of fruit trees in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta.

Business

— The total newly-registered and adjusted capital, capital contribution, and share purchases of foreign direct investment enterprises in Vietnam hit $10.13 billion from the beginning of this year to March 20, up 18.5 percent over the same period last year, according to the Foreign Investment Agency under the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

World news

— “Canadian authorities charged a suspect with murder in the fatal stabbing of a woman and the wounding of six others in an early afternoon attack at a library in a Vancouver suburb on Saturday, police said,” Reuters reported.

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Society

— Vietnam recorded one imported case of COVID-19 from the U.S. on Friday evening, raising the national patient tally to 2,571, with 2,198 recoveries and 35 virus-related deaths.

— Hoang Phi Hung, a Vietnamese medical student of the Pskov State University of Russia, and another Russian citizen have received thank-you letters from the authorities of Pskov oblast for saving two children from drowning on the Velikaya River.

— Bars, karaoke parlors, and discos have been allowed to reopen in Ho Chi Minh City from Friday night.

— Vietnam’s Expanded Program on Immunization is expected to organize professional training courses for 44 localities from now until the end of March, preparing them for the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccination program following the first 16 provinces and cities.

— All suspended and restricted services and activities in northern Hai Phong City have been allowed to resume operation from Saturday.

— Vietnam has moved up four places to rank 79th in the United Nations-sponsored World Happiness Report 2021 which was released on Friday.

Business

— Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has given in-principle approval to the Ministry of Planning and Investment’s proposal to build central Da Nang City into a regional financial center.

— Hoi An City, home to the famous namesake ancient town in central Quang Nam Province, will host a wide range of tourist events and activities from now to May 1 to welcome visitors back at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic has basically been brought under control in the city.

World news

— “A volcanic eruption began in southwestern Iceland near the capital Reykjavik on Friday following thousands of small earthquakes in the area in recent weeks, the country’s meteorological office said,” Reuters reported.

— “Some of Royal Caribbean Group’s cruises will resume sailing in the Caribbean in June with vaccinated adult guests, ending a year-long hiatus brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic,” Reuters reported.

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Society

— Vietnam’s Ministry of Health recorded zero COVID-19 cases on Sunday morning. The country’s tally stood at 2,572, with 2,198 recoveries and 35 deaths, while over 32,300 people have received COVID-19 vaccine shots.

— Beer parlors, bars, and pubs along Bui Vien Walking Street in downtown Ho Chi Minh City have been asked to sign commitments on reducing noise pollution to make sure their operations do not affect local residents.

— Two young siblings, a three-year-old and five-year-old, drowned after falling into a river while playing near their house in the northern province of Nam Dinh on Friday afternoon, local authorities confirmed on Saturday.

— A 59-year-old passenger has been fined VND15 million (US$652) for opening the emergency exit of a Bamboo Airways plane prior to its departure in north-central Thanh Hoa Province on Thursday, causing the flight to be delayed for nearly two hours.

— Over 120 households lost power after a seven-seater automobile knocked down five utility poles following an accident in Thu Duc City, Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday morning.

— Police in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau confirmed on Saturday they had arrested a 66-year-old murder and robbery convict who escaped from prison 32 years ago.

— Officers in the southern province of Long An have arrested and quarantined five Vietnamese citizens who attempted to enter Vietnam from Cambodia illegally by swimming across a river.

— Two women were found dead at Topaz Home Apartment Complex in District 12, Ho Chi Minh City after allegedly falling from a high floor on Sunday morning.

Business

— A trade fair spotlighting Vietnamese goods and featuring more than 100 stalls is in full swing at the Me Linh Plaza in Hanoi’s Ha Dong district, offering opportunities for firms to stimulate trade, distribution, and consumption demand. The five-day event kicked off on Friday.

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Society

— Vietnam’s Expanded Program on Immunization said on Monday that 1,530 more people had received shots of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine on Sunday, raising the total number to 33,891.

— Checkpoints for COVID-19 prevention and control at the entrances to northern Quang Ninh Province have been removed from Monday.

— A woman died and another was severely injured after a 29-seater passenger bus carrying 19 women had lost control, slid to a drainage ditch and overturned on National Highway 6 on its way from northern Son La Province to Hanoi on Sunday morning.

— Border guards at the Tinh Bien international border gate in southern An Giang Province discovered 61 Vietnamese people making illegal entry into Vietnam from Cambodia on Saturday, said Colonel Nguyen Thuong Le, head of the border guard station, on Sunday.

— About 4,000 liters of diesel oil has been pumped out of the sunken ship carrying 1,500 metric tons of fly ash off Mui Ne in the south-central province of Binh Thuan as part of the ongoing salvage operation.

— An ongoing cold wave compressing a low-pressure trough has caused medium to heavy downpours and thunderstorms while lowering temperatures to 15-18 degrees Celsius in northern and north-central Vietnamese localities from Sunday morning.

Business

— The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee has set a target of earning US$70 billion in export turnover by 2025 and $108 billion by 2030, and maintaining an average annual export growth rate of nine percent in 2026-30.

Education

— The Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training has turned down the proposals of non-public schools for opening journalism and communications faculties. Presently, only nine public schools are permitted to train journalism students in Vietnam.

Lifestyle

— The UK-based newspaper Daily Mail has recently voted the Golden Bridge in the central Vietnamese city of Da Nang as a new wonder of the world.

World news

— “Germany is set to extend a lockdown to contain the COVID-19 pandemic into its fifth month, according to a draft proposal, after infection rates exceeded the level at which authorities say hospitals will be overstretched,” Reuters reported.

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Politics

— Vietnamese National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan chaired the fourth session of the National Election Council in Hanoi on Monday to discuss preparations for the upcoming election of deputies to the 15th National Assembly and People’s Councils at all levels for the 2021-26 tenure.

COVID-19 updates

— No COVID-19 case was recorded in Vietnam on Tuesday morning. The country’s tally stood at 2,575 patients, with 2,234 recoveries and 35 deaths, according to the Ministry of Health.

— Authorities in Hanoi and the southern province of Dong Nai have decided to reopen bars, discos, and karaoke parlors from 0:00 on Tuesday.

— The human trial of Nanocovax, one of Vietnam’s four homegrown COVID-19 vaccines, is expected to conclude by the end of this year’s third quarter, an official from the Ministry of Health said at a meeting on COVID-19 prevention and control on Monday.

Society

— Seven people on a truck carrying timber were killed after the vehicle crashed into the mountainside while descending a slope in the north-central province of Thanh Hoa on Monday night.

— A foreign man, about 35 years old, was riding a motorbike along Nam Ky Khoi Nghia Street in District 3, Ho Chi Minh City on Monday afternoon when he suddenly collapsed on the ground and died.

— The completion of the Thu Thiem 2 Bridge project, which connects District 1 and Thu Duc City in Ho Chi Minh City, has once again been postponed to 2023, the project developer said on Monday.

— A 23-year-old woman has suffered loss of vision in one eye and blurred vision in the other after undergoing an eyelid cosmetic surgery at a beauty spa in Hanoi.

— Two men were killed following their failed attempt to rescue a drowning woman along a section of the Tien (Front) River in the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang on Monday.

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Society

— Vietnam’s COVID-19 tally on Thursday morning stood at 2,576, with 272 under treatment, 2,265 recoveries and 35 deaths, according to the Ministry of Health.

— Vietnam on Wednesday called for urgent diversification of its sources for COVID-19 vaccines amid global supply problems, as the Southeast Asian country pushes forward with an inoculation program that began earlier this month, Reuters reported the same day.

— Visas for foreigners living in Vietnam will be issued online via the National Public Service Portal in 2021, according to the Vietnam News Agency .

— Police in the southern province of Bac Lieu are investigating a case in which a 69-year-old woman was found dead and decomposing in her house where she lived alone in Vinh Loi District on Wednesday.

— Medical staff at a general hospital in border areas in the southern province of Dong Thap were given the first shot of COVID-19 vaccine AstraZeneca on Wednesday.

— From March 15 to 24, traffic police across Vietnam detected 5,752 cases of driving under the influence. More than 3,000 driver’s licenses were taken away and 5,752 vehicles of all kinds were temporarily seized.

Business

— The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee has recently submitted to the prime minister a plan to establish a regional and international administrative center in order to attract international investments.

—  The northern province of Quang Ninh will set aside VND58.7 trillion (US$2.53 billion) to develop modern and synchronous infrastructure in 2021-25 to improve investment attraction, the Vietnam News Agency reported on Wednesday.

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