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California, Oregon and Washington will cease to require face coverings in schools after March 11 as the latest Covid-19 surge ebbs, but mask mandates will remain for higher-risk settings such as hospitals and prisons, governors of the three states said on Monday. The joint action, following similar moves announced recently …

The United States said Monday that it was expelling 12 members of Russia’s U.N. mission from America for being “intelligence operatives,” prompting a furious response from Moscow, which denounced what it called a “hostile move.” A spokeswoman for the U.S. mission to the U.N. said those ordered to leave had …

Thu Thiem 2 Bridge spanning the Saigon River to link downtown District 1 and Thu Duc City is expected to open to traffic in April. With work started in 2015, Thu Thiem 2 Bridge that costs nearly VND3.1 trillion ($134.9 million) was originally scheduled for completion in 2018 but issues …

The Hanoi health department on Monday distributed 401,000 200mg molnupiravir pills to 22 medical centers and five hospitals. The pills were distributed for free. The department has already distributed 52,000 molnupiravir pills last month for Covid-19 patients under treatment at home and in hospitals. But several patients still reported a …

Ceasefire talks between Russian and Ukrainian officials began on the Belarusian border on Monday as Russia faced deepening economic isolation. Russian forces seized two small cities in southeastern Ukraine and the area around a nuclear power plant, the Interfax news agency said. But they ran into stiff resistance elsewhere as …

The Health Ministry confirmed 94,376 new local Covid-19 cases in 61 cities and provinces Monday. The northern province of Quang Ninh added 28,095 cases recorded from previous days to the national database, pushing the ongoing wave’s tally to 3,336,118. The three localities with the highest number of new cases were …

The national drug administration has extended the expiry date of Cuba’s Abdala Covid-19 vaccine from six to nine months under 2-8 degrees Celsius in storage. The Ministry of Health on Monday stated the Drug Administration of Vietnam has decided to extend the vaccine’s expiry date based on the latest data …

The bodies of two three-year-old kids, the last missing victims from a motorboat capsized off Vietnam’s central coast on Saturday, have been found, raising the death toll to 17. A three-year-old boy’s body was found at around 2 p.m. Monday amid rocks of a hotel’s embankment by the sea. Rescuers …

Survivors and authorities have blamed the lack of emergency exits for an accident in which 16 were killed when a tourist motorboat capsized. Around 2 p.m. last Saturday, a speedboat operated by Phuong Dong Company was carrying 39 people, including three crew members, from Cham Islands off Hoi An Town …

The body of a three-year-old girl was found inside a motorboat capsized off Vietnam’s central coast on Saturday, raising the death toll to 16. Rescuers found her body in a technical box of the motorboat late Sunday night after having already searched the vessel several times prior, said Nguyen Van …