Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – April 17
Friday, April 17, 2020, 08:37 GMT+7
What you need to know today:
Society
-- Vietnam has recorded no new cases of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) over the past 24 hours. The national tally stands at 268, with 177 patients have recovered.
-- Vietnam donated US$100,000 worth of face masks and medical supplies to Japan and 200,000 cloth face masks to the U.S. to fight the COVID-19 pandemic on Thursday.
-- Lightning struck ten dairy cows to death in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong on Thursday.
-- Police said on Thursday that they had arrested Nguyen Dinh Duyet, deputy director of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment in Lang Son Province, located in northern Vietnam, for abusing powers while on duty, leading to economic losses to the state budget.
Business
-- A total of 1,523 companies were dissolved in Ho Chi Minh City in the first quarter of this year due to COVID-19, Le Thanh Liem, deputy chairman of the municipal People's Committee, said at a meeting on Thursday.
Education
-- Many localities proposed reopening schools next month during a teleconference with the Ministry of Education and Training on Thursday.
World News
-- Over 2.1 million people have caught COVID-19 while more than 145,000 have been killed by the disease as of Friday morning, according to statistics. About 546,000 have recovered.
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