Here are today’s leading news stories:

Politics

-- Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Monday chaired an online meeting with localities and a regular cabinet meeting to review the socio-economic situation in the first half of this year and seek solutions to implement tasks for the rest of the year.

COVID-19 Updates

-- The Ministry of Health reported 685 COVID-19 cases on Monday, raising the national tally to 10,749,324, with 9,715,163 recoveries and 43,088 deaths.

Society

-- A married couple and a young girl were killed, while two other people were injured after a seven-seater car collided with a truck in north-central Quang Binh Province on Monday.

-- A total of 132 people tested positive for drugs after police inspected a karaoke parlor in the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang early on Monday morning.

-- A Hanoi woman and her child drowned while swimming at Thien Cam Beach in north-central Ha Tinh Province on Monday morning. The woman’s body was brought ashore following the incident while her child was found on the afternoon of the same day.

-- Inspectors of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health confirmed on Monday they were working to clarify the cause of a woman’s death after she received intravenous fluids at a clinic in Binh Tan District.

-- Luong Van Toi, chairman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee in Xuan Thang Commune, located in north-central Thanh Hoa Province, has been suspended from work after being accused of groping a tenth grader.

-- The final round of the police command, shooting, and martial arts competition in southern Vietnam was organized in Hue Citadel in north-central Thua Thien-Hue Province on Monday.

Sports

-- Vietnam beat the Philippines 4-1 in their second group-stage match at the 2022 AFF U-19 Youth Championship in Indonesia on Monday afternoon.

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