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COVID-19 Updates

-- Vietnam’s Ministry of Health reported 2,983 COVID-19 cases on Friday, raising the national tally to 11,379,554, with 10,056,190 recoveries and 43,103 deaths.

Society

-- Doctors at National Lung Hospital in Hanoi said on Friday that they had successfully removed a 6.5-centimeter branch that had been puncturing a 22-year-old man's right lobe for 14 years.

-- The People’s Court in Binh Thuan Province, south-central Vietnam, handed down a 14-year sentence to a 49-year-old man for running a fuel smuggling ring with the total value of more than VND2 trillion (US$85.5 million).

-- Rains are expected to continue lashing throughout Vietnam on Saturday as the influence of the tropical depression in northern Vietnam and the southwest monsoon becomes stronger due to a low-pressure area in southern localities.

-- Fifty buildings on Kim Ma Street, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi experienced severe subsidence and cracking due to the construction of the Nhon-Hanoi Station urban metro line in the capital city.

Business

-- iPhone assembler Foxconn has recently invested US$300 million to build a new assembly line for Apple Watch and MacBook for the first time at its plant in Vietnam’s northeastern Bac Giang province.

Sports

-- Vietnamese grandmaster Le Quang Liem won Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa from India in their fifth match on Friday as part of the FTX Crypto Cup 2022.

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