Here are today’s leading news stories:

Politics

-- Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh received Santiago Andrés Cafiero, Argentinean Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship, in Hanoi on Monday as part of the latter’s visit to Vietnam from July 9 to 11, the Vietnam News Agency reported.

COVID-19 Updates

-- The Ministry of Health documented 568 COVID-19 cases on Monday, raising the national tally to 10,755,381, with 9,771,021 recoveries and 43,089 deaths.

Society

-- A number of tourism services on Phu Quoc Island off southern Kien Giang Province such as scuba diving, sea walking, and speedboat tours have been suspended due to bad weather.

-- About 1.09 million workers in Ho Chi Minh City are expected to be provided with financial aid totaling VND1.7 trillion (US$72.7 million) in order to rent houses or return to the labor market.

-- Ho Chi Minh City recorded two more deaths by dengue fever between July 1 and 7, the city’s Center for Disease Control confirmed on Monday.

-- The Hanoi Department of Information and Communications on Monday imposed a VND7.5 million ($321) fine on a 38-year-old man for spreading the false information that chairman of private conglomerate Vingroup Pham Nhat Vuong was banned from leaving Vietnam. 

-- A literature teacher at a high school in northern Hai Duong Province was accused of repeatedly groping a ninth grader, police officers confirmed on Monday.

-- A 46-year-old female factory worker in southern Dong Nai Province was praised by local authorities for returning VND158 million ($6,700) she had found on a street.

-- A crane collapse killed two workers and injured several others at the construction site of a building in central Da Nang City on Monday afternoon.

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