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Over 4,000 flights were canceled around the world on Sunday, more than half of them U.S. flights, adding to the toll of holiday week travel disruptions due to adverse weather and the surge in coronavirus cases caused by the Omicron variant. The flights canceled by 8 pm GMT on Sunday …

The Health Ministry announced 16,914 new local Covid-19 cases in all 63 cities and provinces on Sunday, pushing the ongoing wave’s tally to 1,757,254. The three localities with the highest number of new cases were Hanoi with 2,045 cases, the northern city of Hai Phong with 1,804 cases, and Vinh …

Dong Nai Province has approved the building or widening of three roads leading to Long Thanh airport, Vietnam’s largest, when it is completed. To cost the province VND19.6 trillion ($857 million), they will see the construction of the 53-kilometer Provincial Road 770B at a cost of VND12.5 trillion and the …

A Vietnamese man returning from the U.K., the first person diagnosed with the Omicron variant of Covid-19, was discharged from hospital Sunday after two weeks of treatment. The 108 Military Hospital in Hanoi where he received treatment, said he was isolated for two weeks but did not show any symptoms. …

HCMC has announced new regulations for close monitoring of the isolation of foreign visitors after detecting five people with the Omicron variant of Covid-19. Everyone landing at Tan Son Nhat Airport should install the PC-Covid application on their phone and create a personal QR code or access the city’s Covid-19 …

Air travel continued to be severely disrupted in the U.S. on Saturday, with bad weather in parts of the country adding to the impact of a massive spike in Covid-19 infections fueled by the Omicron variant. The U.S. had 2,604 canceled flights, more than half of the 4,529 canceled worldwide, …

Europe has recorded over 100 million coronavirus cases, more than a third of all infections worldwide, since the start of the pandemic, an AFP tally Saturday showed. The continent has once again become the pandemic’s epicenter in recent months, and is battling an upsurge of cases spurred on by the …

Vietnam reported 14,822 new Covid-19 cases in 62 cities and provinces Saturday, and another five Omicron cases among foreign arrivals. The number of new cases in the past 24 hours decreased by 1,654 nationwide compared to Friday. Hanoi continues to lead the number of infections with 1,748 cases, followed by …

Vietnam has taken 17 years to build 1,163 km (723 miles) of expressways, far short of the original goal to have 5,870 km built by 2020. The construction of Vietnam’s expressways was planned in the 2000s in the context of the transnational highway system’s deterioration, the absence of an expressway …

The HCMC Department of Education and Training has proposed that preschoolers return to school in February 2022 based on parents’ agreement. The expected end of the new school year for pre-schoolers is July 29, according to the plan by the department. The preschools are required to disinfect their premises and …