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Society
— Vietnam has reported five recovered patients testing positive again for the novel coronavirus after hospital discharges, the National Committee for novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Prevention and Control said in a report on Saturday morning.
— A flight bringing home 215 Vietnamese citizens from Singapore landed in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on Friday afternoon. They have all been placed under centralized quarantine upon arrival.
— Ho Chi Minh City is expected to welcome 2,000 overseas Vietnamese citizens home in the coming days, the municipal Party chief Nguyen Thien Nhan said on Friday afternoon.
— Ho Chi Minh City chairman Nguyen Thanh Phong has reprimanded the municipal Department of Natural Resources and Environment deputy director Nguyen Thi Thanh My for issuing a document regarding COVID-19 prevention that caused panic in the public.
— The People’s Committee of the central province of Quang Nam has asked the provincial health department to report details on its purchase of a COVID-19 testing system priced at over VND7 billion (US$298,837).
Business
— Vietnam’s aviation passenger volumes so far in 2020 have decreased significantly by 46 percent from the same period last year, according to a Ministry of Transport report on Friday.
— Up to 20 million cloth face masks remain unsold in Vietnam due to barriers in exports and consumption, said Truong Thanh Hoai, head of the Industry Department under the Ministry of Industry and Trade, at a meeting on Friday afternoon.
— The COVID-19 pandemic has caused approximately five million workers in Vietnam to either lose their jobs or be furloughed, bringing the number of employed people in the first quarter of 2020 to a ten-year low, the General Statistics Office announced on Friday.
Education
— The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee plans to provide each of about 1,393,000 students in the city three reusable face masks every month for three months from their back-to-school date in May.
World News
— The novel coronavirus has infected over 2.82 million people and claimed more than 196,900 lives around the world as of Saturday morning, according to statistics. Almost 781,300 people have recovered from COVID-19.
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