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Society

— Fully vaccinated people or those recovering from COVID-19 within six months from Ho Chi Minh City, Dong Nai, Binh Duong, and Long An will not be sent to concentrated quarantine facilities when arriving in the southern province of Binh Phuoc, the provincial People’s Committee said in an urgent dispatch on Wednesday night.

— More than 91 percent of COVID-19 patients in Vietnam had been treated and recovered as of Tuesday, the Vietnam News Agency reported on Wednesday.

— The north-central province of Quang Binh will organize four train trips on Friday and Saturday to bring home around 2,800 residents who are living in the southern region amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

— Australia’s Ambassador to Vietnam Robyn Mudie on Wednesday joined Vietnam's Deputy Minister of Health Truong Quoc Cuong at a ceremony at the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology to formally hand over 300,000 AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine doses, which arrived in Hanoi last week, the Australian Embassy said in a press release the same day.

Business

— The southern province of Binh Duong earned over US$24.5 billion from exports in the first nine months of 2021, up 26.7 percent year on year and meeting 79.8 percent of this year’s target, the Vietnam News Agency reported on Wednesday.

— The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam on Wednesday proposed the Ministry of Transport reopen routes connecting nine provinces and cities whose airport operators accept regular domestic passenger flights without requiring centralized quarantine from October 10.

Lifestyle

— UK-based photographer Walter Monticelli has recently become a runner-up in the National Geographic Traveller Photography Competition 2021’s People category with his photo capturing a Vietnamese woman wearing a traditional costume in the Imperial City of Hue.

Education

— Around 20 French higher education institutions will introduce themselves and answer questions from Vietnamese who are planning to study in France at a series of online education exhibitions from October 9 to November 20.

— The Australian Center for International Agriculture Research has announced 19 Vietnamese agricultural scientists, researchers, and managers joining its John Dillon Fellowship 2021, which presents the largest and most diverse selection of Vietnamese fellows compared to all previous years, the Australian Embassy said in a press release early this week.

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