Here are today’s leading news stories:

COVID-19 Updates

-- Vietnam’s Ministry of Health documented 131,817 COVID-19 cases on Saturday, raising the country’s tally to 4,232,520, with 2,616,002 recoveries and 40,726 deaths.

-- The health ministry has proposed that COVID-19 patients with no symptoms be allowed to work online during their quarantine time, while their direct contacts should be permitted to either work from home or in the office.

-- A shipment of three million COVID-19 vaccine doses for children aged five to below 12 is expected to arrive in Vietnam by the end of this month, according to a source close to Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper.

Society

-- A 55-year-old man and his 29-year-old son were killed after their truck had a brake failure and tipped over in northern Yen Bai Province on Friday night, police confirmed on Saturday.

-- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh officially inaugurated the first phase of the VND3.3 trillion (US$144 million) Cai Lon-Cai Be irrigation system during a ceremony in the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang on Saturday.

-- Police in north-central Quang Binh Province confirmed on Saturday they had imposed over VND7 million ($306) worth of fines on two teenage boys, both 17, who had posted a video of themselves riding a motorbike with one foot on TikTok.

-- Officers in northern Vinh Phuc Province arrested a 45-year-old murder suspect as he attempted to escape to Laos on Saturday, about 36 hours after having committed his crime.

-- Police in north-central Thanh Hoa Province confirmed they had detected three cases of transporting and trading nearly 6,000 COVID-19 test kits of unknown origin on Friday and Saturday.

Lifestyle

-- The eighth annual Ho Chi Minh City Ao Dai Festival kicked off on Nguyen Hue Pedestrian Street in District 1 on Saturday evening. The event will last until April 15.

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