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Japan serious Covid-19 cases crossed 1,000 for the first time in four months, data showed on Friday, as the Omicron variant fueled record infections and burdened the medical system. Seriously ill patients climbed by 131 to 1,042 cases from the day before, the health ministry said, the highest since September …

The government issued a resolution Friday urging the Health Ministry to quickly buy Covid-19 vaccines for children aged 5 to 11. The resolution ordered cities and provinces to quicken vaccination for children against Covid-19, and finish giving booster shots to people from 18 years old. The government also pledged to …

The flower street on Nguyen Hue Boulevard in downtown Ho Chi Minh City will stay open until Sunday given a large number of visitors. Opened last Saturday for Tet, the biggest holiday celebrating a new lunar year, Nguyen Hue flower street will not be closed on Friday night as initially …

China’s President Xi Jinping is poised for his first face-to-face meeting with a world leader in nearly two years on Friday when he hosts Russia’s Vladimir Putin, with the pair drawing closer as tensions grow with the West. Xi has not left China since January 2020, when the country was …

The daring U.S. helicopter raid deep in Syria that ended in the death of one of the world’s most wanted men gives Joe Biden the kind of dramatic military win presidents crave — and one the Democrat particularly needed. “A major terrorist threat to the world” was extinguished, Biden said …

Students across the country will return to school after Tet except primary school and kindergarten children in Hanoi and two southern provinces, though there too they will do so this month. The Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son said authorities in the capital and Binh Duong and Dong …

The World Health Organization on Thursday offered Europe hope of a “long period of tranquility” and even “enduring peace” in the war on coronavirus, with a growing list of nations lifting almost all Covid curbs. WHO Europe director Hans Kluge spoke of “a ceasefire that could bring us enduring peace”, …

Students of all grade levels would return to school this month, the education ministry announced Thursday. Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son said on Thursday all universities and colleges have had plans to let their students return to school within this month. All secondary and high schools across …

In a tragic accident, a teenager in Binh Thuan Province had a hand practically torn apart when homemade firecrackers went off prematurely. The 15-year-old boy, who has been admitted to Children’s Hospital 2 in Ho Chi Minh City, lost one finger in his right hand while another was torn and …

Vietnam recorded 8,575 new local Covid-19 cases on Thursday, bringing the infection tally in the fourth wave to 2,274,577 cases. The three localities with the highest numbers of new cases are Hanoi with 2,738 cases, Thanh Hoa with 463 cases and Quang Nam with 356 cases. 286 deaths were added …