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Politics

-- At a meeting on Friday with the Japanese Ambassador to Vietnam Yamada Takio, Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh asked the Japanese government to continue donating vaccine doses to Vietnam amid the country's acceleration of its vaccination campaign to curb the increasing COVID-19 spread.

COVID-19 Updates

-- Vietnam on Saturday morning reported 9,180 new cases of COVID-19, including 3,531 cases in Ho Chi Minh City, increasing the country's tally to 255,748, including 92,738 recoveries and 5,088 deaths, according to the Ministry of Health.

-- Authorities in Ho Chi Minh City on Friday have decided to extend the social distancing measures under the municipal People's Committee's directive No.16 as the pandemic situation is still very complicated.

-- Medical staff at the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Hanoi on Friday successfully delivered two babies born to coronavirus patients.

-- Ba Ria - Vung Tau Province in southern Vietnam will continue to apply social distancing measures under the municipal People's Committee's directive No. 16 from 0:00 on Monday as an effort to contain the surging COVID-19 cases.

Society

-- Police officers in Nha Trang, a coastal resort city in south-central Vietnam's Khanh Hoa Province, on Friday have arrested a drug addict who tested positive for the coronavirus after he escaped from a blockaded area.

-- The Dong Nai General Confederation of Labor has spent VND33 billion (US$1.4 million) supporting workers who have been affected adversely by COVID-19.

-- An 18-year-old man in the southern province of Binh Phuoc whose hand was incubated in his abdomen after a labor accident has convalesced from COVID-19 after completing his treatment at a local hospital in 19 days.

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