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COVID-19 Updates

-- The Vietnamese Ministry of Health confirmed on Monday morning 97 new local COVID-19 cases, including 62 in Ho Chi Minh City, raising the national tally to 15,740 infections, with 6,319 recoveries and 76 deaths.

-- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh requested authorities in southern Dong Nai Province consider quarantining COVID-19 patients without severe symptoms and their direct contacts at home at a meeting on Sunday afternoon.

-- Authorities in Ho Chi Minh City have suspended the entirety of Hoa Hung Market in District 10 and Hoang Hoa Tham Market in Tan Binh District from Sunday until further notice due to their connection with coronavirus patients.

-- The Ministry of Health on Sunday issued a new set of guidelines for piloting home medical isolation of COVID-19 patients’ direct contacts in Ho Chi Minh City.

-- An additional field hospital specializing in treating coronavirus-sickened patients having no or mild symptoms, with a capacity of 1,000 beds, has been put into operation in Ho Chi Minh City from Monday morning.

Society

-- Rescuers saved a man having his head and shoulders stuck inside a dumbwaiter in Dong Da District, Hanoi on Sunday evening.

-- A man damaged a 22kV underground power line while driving an excavator in Hoi An City, located in central Quang Nam Province, causing a power outage on Cu Lao Cham Island, which is 18km away from the city’s Cua Dai coast, from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm on Sunday.

-- A group of four teenage students in northern Vinh Phuc Province were caught throwing stones at vehicles running on the section of the Hanoi - Lao Cai Expressway through Tam Duong District, imitating a video they watched on TikTok.

Business

-- Vietnamese airlines have incurred short-term and due debts of up to VND36 trillion (US$1.6 billion) since the COVID-19 pandemic hit the country early last year, according to the Vietnam Aviation Business Association (VABA).

-- Supermarket systems in Ho Chi Minh City have sourced supplies from other wholesale markets following the seven-day suspension of delivery service at the Hoc Mon wholesale market in the namesake district due to 19 COVID-19 patients detected there.

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