Read what is in the news in Vietnam today:

-- Doctors in northern Phu Tho Province recently successfully treated a ten-year-old patient suffering from severe anaphylactic shock after drinking a carbonated soft drink.

-- Border guard officers in central Quang Ngai Province rescued 11 crew members on a drifting ship that was hit by big waves and slammed into a reef on its way carrying rice from southern An Giang Province to northern Hai Phong City on Thursday.

-- Eighty-nine people were killed and 111 others were injured in 152 crashes across Vietnam during the seven-day 2023 Tet (Lunar New Year) break starting January 20, the traffic safety agency reported on Thursday.

-- Medical facilities across Vietnam received 403 cases requiring medical examination and emergency treatment due to firecracker-related accidents in the first six days of the 2023 Tet holiday, an increase of 139 cases compared to the same period last year.

-- Most ways leading to Hanoi were crammed with people and vehicles returning to the city on Thursday after Tet.

-- Deputy Minister of Transport Nguyen Duy Lam has urged the management board of the My Thuan-Can Tho Expressway project to complete building the remaining 45 percent of the 23-kilometer-long route running through the two Mekong Delta provinces of Dong Thap and Vinh Long by August.

-- The number of visitors to Hanoi reached 330,000 in the first five days of the 2023 Tet holiday, an increase of more than 200 percent compared to the same period last year, according to the city’s tourism department.

-- The 2023 Nguyen Hue Tet Flower Street in Ho Chi Minh City welcomed a record number of more than 1.2 million visitors as of Thursday since its opening on January 19, according to the organizing board.

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