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COVID-19 Updates

-- Vietnam’s Ministry of Health reported 1,668 COVID-19 cases on Saturday, raising the national tally to 10,778,154, with 9,905,519 recoveries and 43,093 deaths.

Politics

-- Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired a dialogue with South Korean Ambassador to Vietnam Park Noh Wan and representatives of South Korean associations and businesses in Vietnam in Hanoi on Saturday, according to the Vietnam News Agency.

Society

-- The Drug Administration of Vietnam under the health ministry has recently filed a formal request to e-commerce giant Shopee for recalling three types of cosmetic goods that contain mercury levels over the authorized threshold and are not registered for sale in the country.

-- A representative from the company that hires two female employees who removed their bras to carry seawater during a team-building activity at a popular beach in northern Vietnam made a public apology on Saturday after being fined for violations of social order and security.

-- Police in Hanoi said on Saturday that they were working with relevant units to investigate a case in which a one-year-old girl was hospitalized in severe conditions after being abused by her babysitter and her babysitter's husband earlier this week.

Sports

-- Vietnam moved one step closer to the semifinals at the AFF U18 Women’s Championship 2022 after sealing a 1-0 victory over Thailand in Group A at the Gelora Sriwijaya Stadium in Indonesia on Saturday.

Education

-- A group of students from Hoa Sen University in Ho Chi Minh City won one of the top prizes in Google's Developer Student Clubs Solution Challenge 2022 on Thursday with their project on a low-cost application that performs several COVID-19 protocol verification tasks.

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