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COVID-19 Updates

-- Vietnam’s Ministry of Health reported 1,470 COVID-19 cases on Friday, raising the national tally to 11,479,356, with 10,591,865 recoveries and 43,148 deaths.

Politics

-- Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz met leaders and members of the Vietnam-Cuba Friendship Association in Hanoi on Friday, according to the Vietnam News Agency.

Society

-- Many petrol stations in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta have simultaneously shut down or ceased operations due to low commission offered by importers and high operational costs.

-- Police in Ha Giang Province, northern Vietnam, said on Friday that they had initiated legal proceedings against the man who raped a tour guide while she was sleeping inside a bungalow last week.

-- Nearly 4,000 chickens raised by a family in Nghe An Province, northern Vietnam, were killed due to flooding in the wake of Typhoon Noru on Friday.

-- Police in Lam Dong Province, Vietnam’s Central Highlands, said on Friday that they had arrested five people for assaulting five others at a bar on Wednesday, causing severe injuries to the victims.

-- The Vietnamese Ministry of Health has issued a warning on the potential for rabies disease outbreaks in the country due to the significant increase of new cases in areas that were not rabies hotspots before.

-- Iain Frew, British Ambassador to Vietnam, paid a visit to Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper’s head office on Friday.

World News

-- U.S. consumers are exhibiting fragility ahead of the peak period for corporate results next month, as some are struggling to pay bills and others are slowing purchases of cars, sneakers, and household goods, the week's earnings show, Reuters reported on Friday.

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