Read what is in the news today:

Politics

-- Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Friday visited and worked with the Pasteur Institute in Paris as part of his official visit to France.

-- Vietnamese State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc will attend the 28th APEC Economic Leaders’ online meeting at the invitation of New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern from November 11 to 12.

Society

-- Authorities in Hanoi recorded 133 new COVID-19 cases, 61 of which were found in the community, 33 in quarantine facilities, and 39 in zoned-off areas, from 6:00 pm on Thursday to 6:00 pm on Friday. Up to 62 of the patients had fully received two doses of COVID-19 vaccine.

-- A new COVID-19 centralized quarantine establishment was put into operation at the Saigon Hi-Tech Park in Thu Duc City under Ho Chi Minh City on Friday afternoon.

-- A dump truck killed three people and injured another traveling together on a motorbike without wearing helmets after a collision in southern Dong Nai Province on Thursday afternoon.

-- High tide in Ho Chi Minh City reached 1.7 meters on Friday afternoon, surpassing the peak of the same period last year.

Education

-- The People’s Committee of Dong Nai, the southern province hard hit by the fourth wave of COVID-19 in Vietnam, has decided to let students in certain grades return to schools in selected locales in a trial period from November 22 to December 1 after suspending in-person schooling since May 12.

World news

-- German security services believe that a man found dead in a street outside the Russian Embassy in Berlin last month was an undercover agent of Russia's FSB intelligence service, Der Spiegel reported on Friday.

-- Pfizer Inc is in discussions with 90 countries over supply contracts for its experimental COVID-19 pill, which was shown to reduce by 89% the risk of hospitalization or death in patients at high risk of severe illness, Chief Executive Officer Albert Bourla said in an interview on Friday, according to Reuters.

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