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France lifted most Covid-19 restrictions on Monday, ending the need for face masks to be worn in the majority of public places and allowing the unvaccinated back into bars, restaurants and cinemas. The move comes less than a month before the first round of a presidential election and just as …

Ho Chi Minh City’s Health Department has called on the local administration to give out Covid-19 drugs containing molnupiravir to patients. For now, the Ministry of Health still lists Covid in Group A, which comprises dangerous infectious diseases with the ability to spread quickly and widely, have a high mortality …

A consortium of South Korea’s Samsung C&T Corp and Vietnam’s Lilama Corp has won a $940 million contract to build Vietnam’s first LNG-fired power plants, Lilama said in a statement on Tuesday. Under the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract awarded by PetroVietnam Power and signed on Monday, the consortium …

A consortium of South Korea’s Samsung C&T Corp and Vietnam’s Lilama Corp has won a $940 million contract to build Vietnam’s first LNG-fired power plants, Lilama said in a statement on Tuesday. Under the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract awarded by PetroVietnam Power and signed on Monday, the consortium …

The Ministry of Health on Monday night clarified a guideline for quarantining Covid-19 patients that has caused confusion saying they can only leave their room and not home. One of the guidelines it had issued earlier that day for managing treatment at home said “Covid patients can leave their quarantine,” …

Russia unleashed a barrage of air strikes Monday on cities across Ukraine as the warring sides traded blame for a deadly attack in a pro-Moscow separatist region — but made little headway in ceasefire talks. With Russian forces threatening to take “full control” of several major cities, the fourth round …

Police were conducting an “urgent” manhunt on Monday for a gunman suspected of shooting homeless men on the streets of Washington and New York in a series of “cold-blooded” attacks. The string of shootings, which took place in the middle of the night over a period of 10 days this …

Mainland China posted a steep jump in daily Covid-19 infections on Tuesday, with new symptomatic cases more than doubling from a day earlier to a two-year high as a virus outbreak expanded rapidly in the country’s northeast. A total of 3,507 domestically transmitted cases with confirmed symptoms were reported on …

The health ministry on Monday night explained a policy to allow Covid-19 cases to “get out of quarantine”, saying they’re only allowed to leave their rooms, not their homes. In a new guideline to manage Covid-19 at home issued the same day, the Ministry of Health said Covid-19 cases should …

China on March 4 announced the establishment of a no-go zone for a military drill in the East Sea, which experts believe could be used to push its claims in the waterway. Collin Koh Swee Lea, a research fellow at Singapore’s S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, told VnExpress International …