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Approximately 11,400 local enterprises leave the market each month, with the number of newly-established businesses decreasing sharply in July by 33.8% compared to the same period from last year, according to information compiled by the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

Hoi An Town will impose social distancing based on Prime Ministerial Directive 16 starting from 6 am on July 31 for Covid-19 prevention.

Hanoi City Cultural Centre, under the municipal Department of Culture and Sports, recently launched a photo contest themed ‘Women with family and society’ to honour the beauty of Vietnamese women and raise public awareness on gender equality.

HCM City is trying to protect residential clusters that have not been affected by the pandemic through a green cluster plan.

Hanoi’s Hoa Lo Prison now has an official podcast channel on music streaming service Spotify, aiming to bring the Vietnamese history closer to public audience, particularly young people, according to its management board.

Vietnamese swimmer Nguyen Thi Anh Vien finished last in the women’s 800m freestyle at the ongoing Olympic Tokyo 2020 on July 29, ending her journey at the event.

Vietnam recorded an additional 4,992 more Covid-19 infections in the past 12 hours, raising the total number of patients in the country to 133,405, the Ministry of Health reported at 6am on Friday.

Traffic police officers from many areas have extended help to thousands of people as they try to flee the virus centre of Ho Chi Minh City.

HCM City will urgently set up three ICU centres for seriously ill Covid-19 patients.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has expressed a wish to develop the comprehensive partnership with the US on the basis of mutual benefits, for the sake of peace, stability and development in the region and the world during his

State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc on July 29 urged Ho Chi Minh City – the country’s biggest COVID-19 hotspot at present - to promote the motto of “fighting the pandemic is like fighting the enemy.”

An additional 7,594 Covid-19 infections were recorded on Thursday in Vietnam, raising the total number of patients in the country to 128,413, the Ministry of Health has reported.

Dantri readers have helped build two houses for two poor families in Dinh Hoa District, Thai Nguyen Province, that worth over VND300m (USD13,000).

The northern region of Vietnam has been forecasted to continue facing heavy rain until the end of Friday, according to the National Centre for Hydrometeorology Forecasting.

The Party, State and people of Vietnam will donate 10,000 tonnes of rice to the Party, State and people of Cuba to partly share difficulties faced by the Caribbean nation at present.

Hanoi has launched its largest-ever Covid-19 vaccination campaign in a bid to achieve herd immunity against the pandemic soon.

A batch of 659,900 AstraZenaca COVID-19 vaccine doses arrived in Ho Chi Minh City on July 29, reported the Health Ministry.

US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin is on an official visit to Vietnam on July 28 and 29 at the invitation of Vietnamese Minister of National Defence General Phan Van Giang.

HCM City will expand the Covid-19 vaccination time to after 6 pm in order to speed up the vaccination amid the city’s ongoing Covid-19 challenge.