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Students from 7th to 12th grades in areas with low and medium Covid risks in Hanoi will return to schools on February 8, the city’s administration said Monday. The decision for students of those grades, aged 14-17, to get back to their classes after eight months of studying online was …

Doctors in Ho Chi Minh City have successfully performed a kidney transplant without the same blood type, the first case of its type in Vietnam. The transplant was performed at Cho Ray, a leading hospital in southern Vietnam. The recipient is Vi Van Biet, 54, and the donor is his …

A fourth dose of Covid-19 vaccine given to people over 60 in Israel made them three times more resistant to serious illness than thrice-vaccinated people in the same age group, Israel’s Health Ministry said on Sunday. The ministry also said the fourth dose, or second booster, made people over 60 …

Australia recorded another surge of Covid-19 deaths on Monday as an outbreak of the highly contagious Omicron variant peaked, and authorities warned numbers could rise further when schools return from end-of-year holidays next week. The world No. 13 economy is trying to strike a balance between reopening after two years …

Tan Son Nhat airport and bus stations in HCMC are beginning to fill up as people begin their annual trip home for Tet. Streams of people lined up at the booths of carriers like Vietnam Airlines and Vietjet on Sunday afternoon, and all seats in the busy airport were taken. …

Late last year, Tania Sibree quit her well-paid job as a financial services lawyer in Hong Kong and returned to Australia rather than live a moment longer with the city’s strict coronavirus restrictions. Sibree, who said she had enjoyed the previous five years in Hong Kong, is one of hundreds …

Three more people in HCMC have been confirmed to be infected with the Omicron strain, including a woman returning from the U.S. Gene sequencing results have confirmed that the woman who entered Vietnam on Jan. 7 had contracted the Omicron variant of the new coronavirus, doctor Nguyen Van Vinh Chau, …

Australia’s build-up to a crunch World Cup qualifier this week suffered a setback Sunday when coach Graham Arnold tested positive for Covid-19 and was forced into isolation. The Socceroos face Vietnam in Melbourne on Thursday with Arnold’s deputy, former Manchester United assistant coach Rene Meulensteen, taking the reins. Football Australia …

Waving signs denouncing President Joe Biden and calling for “freedom,” several thousand people demonstrated in Washington Sunday against what some described as the “tyranny” of Covid-19 vaccine mandates in the United States. Speaker after speaker — including notorious anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who compared vaccine mandates to the Holocaust …

The Omicron-fuelled wave of Covid-19 infections has led wealthy countries to intensify their recruitment of nurses from poorer parts of the world, worsening dire staffing shortages in overstretched workforces there, the International Council of Nurses said. Sickness, burnout and staff departures amid surging Omicron cases have driven absentee rates to …