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  About 231.5 million shots of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in the country to date. VNA/VNS Photo HÀ NỘI — Việt Nam recorded 777 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, with no deaths. The latest update brings Việt Nam’s total COVID-19 infections to 10,745,631 so far. There are currently 49 COVID patients …

  Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Phạm Quang Hiệu delivers an opening speech at the eighth ocean dialogue. — VNA/VNS Photo  HÀ NỘI — The eighth ocean dialogue was held on Wednesday in Hà Nội on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of UNCLOS with the theme of promoting maritime cooperation …

  Foreign tourists from Singapore arrived in the south-central province of Khánh Hoà. — VNA/VNS Photo Tiên Minh HÀ NỘI — The number of foreign tourists visiting Việt Nam in the first half of 2022 increased 6.8 times over the same period of 2021, reaching 602,000, according to the General …

  From today, the Ministry of Health will no longer provide a regional breakdown of new COVID transmissions.  

Administering the fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccine to medical staff in the northern province of Ninh Bình. — VNA/VNS Photo Hải Yến HÀ NỘI — If Việt Nam declares the end of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country, it will meet many difficulties in pandemic prevention and control and be …

  Tôn Thanh Trà, General Director of Chợ Rẫy-Phnom Penh Hospital, gives a health check-up to a patient at the hospital in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. — VNA/VNS Photo  HÀ NỘI — One evening, doctors at Chợ Rẫy-Phnom Penh Hospital received a red alarm from the Emergency Department. A female patient …

  High-speed boat services between HCM City and the provinces of Tiền Giang and Bến Tre are expected to start operating later this year. Photo courtesy of dulich.tuoitre.vn HCM CITY – High-speed boat services from HCM City to the provinces of Tiền Giang and Bến Tre and back are expected to …

  Students do research in a lab at the Việt Nam National University in HCM City. — Photo courtesy of the university HCM CITY — HCM City will need to promote the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the education sector as part of its effort to become a smart city …

  All agencies are asked to continue administering booster doses for those 18 and above, and to complete second doses for those aged 5-11 in August. VNA/VNS Photo. HÀ NỘI — There were 769 new COVID-19 infections recorded across Việt Nam on Tuesday, an increase of 132 new cases from Monday. The figure brings …

The 769 new COVID-19 cases are all local infections, including 665 in the community, detected in Hà Nội (158), Phú Thọ (62), Nghệ An (54), Bắc Ninh (40), Sơn La (40), Đà Nẵng (38), Hồ Chí Minh City (32), Yên Bái (32), Lào Cai (27), Quảng Ninh (26), Hòa Bình …