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Cambodia has detected the country’s first case of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus in a local woman who had travelled from Ghana, the ministry of health said. The 23-year old woman had returned from Ghana via Dubai and Bangkok, the ministry said in a statement issued on Tuesday. The …

A household survey that sought to measure the nation’s high school completion rate for the first time found that it was just 58.1 percent in early 2021. The survey described the figure as the “percentage of children aged 3-5 years above the intended age for the last grade who have …

A Hanoi court sentenced 43-year-old Pham Doan Trang to nine years in jail Tuesday for anti-state propaganda that was “dangerous to society” and done intentionally. The court judgement said the defendant had a certain level of awareness, understood and knew the consequences of her actions, but kept actively committing the …

Although the Covid-19 pandemic keeps developing in complicated fashion, Monday’s reopening of schools for 9th and 12th graders in HCMC was a happy occasion for students, parents and teachers. Tran Doan De of Tan Phu District took his grandchild to school in District 5 and back after seven months of …

HCMC has started imposing more stringent inspections on foreign arrivals, especially those coming from places where the Omicron variant of the Covid-19 virus has been detected. According to an Omicron response plan released Tuesday by the city administration, all passengers arriving in the city on international flights must have negative …

Vietnam has organized 800 flights to repatriate more than 200,000 citizens since the pandemic broke out, deputy PM Pham Binh Minh revealed. In an interview about Vietnam’s foreign affairs achievements in the period of international integration released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday, the Deputy Prime Minister said …

At a solemn handover ceremony held Tuesday, Vietnam handed over two sets of remains believed to belong to American soldiers who died in the Vietnam War. The ceremony took place in the central city of Da Nang. The remains were retrieved as a result of the 144th and 145th joint …

Two doses of Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine appear to have given 70 percent protection against hospitalization in South Africa in recent weeks, a major real-world study on the potential impact of Omicron showed on Tuesday, as the country battles a spike in infections linked to the new variant. The study released …

The Health Ministry announced nother 15,203 domestic Covid-19 patients in 62 provinces and cities on Tuesday. The locality with the highest number of new cases was Ca Mau Province with 1,011 cases, marking the highest daily cases ever recorded in the Mekong Delta locality. Ho Chi Minh City came second …

Ho Chi Minh City is calling all with underlying diseases to get vaccinated soon as they are the most vulnerable to Covid-19. Most fatalities recorded across the city lately are among those over 65, suffering chronic diseases and have yet to be vaccinated, Nguyen Thi Huynh Mai, the department’s office …