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Risks of fresh outbreaks still remain

Despite going 42 days without any new cases of COVID-19 in Hà Nội, health officials in the capital are warning there is still a risk of an outbreak. 

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Flight attendant receives two-year suspended sentence for quarantine violation

A Vietnam Airlines flight attendant who “seriously violated Covid-19 quarantine regulations” on March 30 received a two-year suspended sentence with a probation period of four years for “spreading dangerous infectious disease to people”, the HCM City People’s Court said.

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Hải Dương Province, COVID-19 hot spot, to enter 'new normal' starting April

The decision was announced at a meeting of the province’s leaders on Monday.

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Two-month-old baby among six dead in house fire in HCM City's Thủ Đức City

Police said the only person to survive was a 55-year-old man, Lục Chấn Tâm, who was sleeping near the front of the house when the fire broke out and managed to escape.

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Việt Nam wants US help in setting up two central Centres for Disease Control: Minister

Vietnamese health minister Nguyễn Thanh Long said Việt Nam hoped that the US would provide support for the country’s plan to set up two central-level CDCs.

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Vĩnh Long social work centre cares for disadvantaged children

Many of the children have been abandoned by their parents or are orphans, making for a hugely difficult start to life.

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Đà Nẵng City eyes ambitious development goals

Đà Nẵng is set to be a key socio-economic development centre of Việt Nam and ASEAN, a site of global supply chains, an innovation and start-up power and a unique ocean and port urban area, according to Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng.

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Đắk Lắk man prospers thanks to organic agriculture

Located about 30 km from the Buôn Ma Thuột City’s centre Thành has a small house, three hectares of fruit trees, and six ponds for raising fish.

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Botulinum poisoning cases concern health experts

One person died of suspected botulinum poisoning after eating vegetarian pâté in the southern province of Bình Dương last week.