Here are today’s leading news stories:

COVID-19 Updates

-- Vietnam’s Ministry of Health documented 2,175 COVID-19 cases on Monday, raising the national tally to 10,678,359, with 9,322,165 recoveries and 43,057 deaths.

Society

-- Three people were killed after a boat carrying six people capsized in Da Ton Lake in southern Dong Nai Province on Monday afternoon.

-- The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee has given a nod to a proposal of competent authorities to stop leasing an anti-flooding pump on Nguyen Huu Canh Street as the road is no longer susceptible to inundation following its upgrade.

-- A 65-year-old man from south-central Phu Yen Province has gone missing for over a month after he went to a local forest to look for agarwood, local authorities confirmed on Monday.

-- The bodies of a six-year-old boy and his four-year-old sister were found along a canal in District 12, Ho Chi Minh City on Monday evening after they went missing for several hours.

-- The number of children with hand-foot-mouth disease in Ho Chi Minh City recorded last week increased by nearly four times compared to the average of the previous four weeks, according to the city’s Center for Disease Control.

-- Police in northern Thai Binh Province confirmed they had broken up an online gambling ring with transactions accumulating to about VND6.6 trillion (US$287.5 million) from 2018 to 2022.

-- Police in south-central Binh Thuan Province coordinated with the Ministry of Public Security on Monday to examine the swimming pool of a local resort where an 11-year-old Japanese boy drowned last week.

Business

-- Vietnam earned $3.57 billion from aquatic exports in the first four months of 2022, posting a year-on-year increase of 43.7 percent, the Vietnam News Agency quoted the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development as saying.

Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter to get the latest news about Vietnam!