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Society

-- Nearly 85 percent of new COVID-19 cases detected in Ho Chi Minh City on Friday were in the community, marking a highest community-based positive rate since the start of the current citywide testing campaign on Monday.

-- The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health provided guidelines for enterprises on Friday evening to conduct rapid COVID-19 tests on their workers every seven days.

-- The People’s Committee of Hanoi on Friday afternoon decided to enforce a new movement declaration mobile application at COVID-19 checkpoints across the city.

-- Hanoi authorities have put several areas with a total 1,903 population in Giap Bat Ward, Hoang Mai District under medical isolation for 14 days over newly detected coronavirus infections.

-- The Food Safety Authority of Ireland has announced on its website that certain batches of instant noodle products, including two from Vietnam’s famous Japanese-invested instant noodle maker Acecook, are being recalled due to the presence of the unauthorized pesticide ethylene oxide.

-- Vietnam’s leading passenger bus operator Phuong Trang has imported 99 16-seater vans to convert them into ambulances for transporting COVID-19 patients in Ho Chi Minh City.

-- Representatives of overseas Vietnamese associations expressed their wishes at a virtual meeting on Friday afternoon that the government will soon have appropriate regulations to allow vaccinated Vietnamese to return to the country, especially by reopening flights between Vietnam and countries with a large community of Vietnamese expatriates.

-- A heavy rain in Da Lat City, located in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong, unrooted an old pine tree, causing it to fall over a pickup truck running on the street and injure a man inside the vehicle on Friday afternoon. 

Sports

-- “Manchester United have agreed a deal to re-sign Cristiano Ronaldo from Juventus, the Premier League club announced on Friday, with the transfer subject to the agreement of personal terms, visa and a medical,” Reuters reported.

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