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A 71-year-old woman with Covid-19 has died, becoming the country’s 62nd Covid-19 death.

Deputy Minister of Education and Training Hoang Minh Son has signed a decision allowing three foreign centres for education quality accreditation to operate in Vietnam.

The Seventh International Yoga Day is due to be held online on June 21, according to information provided by the Embassy of India.

Vietnam reported 121 new Covid-19 patients from 6 am to 12 pm on June 18, comprising two from abroad, according to the Ministry of Health.

The northern and central regions of Vietnam are witnessing extremely hot weather with the highest temperature of even more than 40 degrees centigrade.

Around 15,000 people lined up for Covid-19 testing on Thursday evening amid the ongoing Covid-19 outbreak in Ho Chi Minh City.

Hanoi People's Committee Chairman Chu Ngoc Anh has requested an investigation into the slow salary payment for environmental workers.

National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue said Li Zhanshu, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of China, has invited him to visit China at an appropriate time, during their phone talks on June 17.

Ho Chi Minh City is set to begin its COVID-19 vaccination campaign on June 19, with priority groups to get injected with about 800,000 AstraZeneca vaccine doses donated by the Japanese Government.

Dozens of turtles and dolphins were killed by intense heat and chemical poisoning from a container ship that burned for almost two weeks off Sri Lanka, authorities said Thursday.

Vietnam has recorded 81 more Covid-19 infections in two hotspots of Bac Giang Province and Ho Chi Minh City, raising the total number of patients in the country to 12,231, the Ministry of Health reported on Friday morning.

Hanoi authorities have called on the community for donations to the city’s Covid-19 vaccination programme.

An amount of 770 kilos of coins recently found in the central province of Quang Binh Province has initially been defined to date back to the Nguyen Dynasty in the 19th century.

Vietnam has recorded 515 more Covid-19 infections over the past 24 hours, raising the total number of patients in the country to 12,150, the Ministry of Health reported on Thursday evening.

The Drug Crime Investigation Police Department (C04) has broken up a transnational drug trafficking ring from Europe to Vietnam, detaining 16 suspects and seizing 127 kg of narcotics.

A woman in Nghe An Province is calling for financial support to help save her husband and son from cancer.

Vietnam recorded 220 more Covid-19 infections in the past six hours, raising the total number of patients in the country to 12,014, the Ministry of Health reported at noon on Thursday.

Social distancing measures have been implemented in Vinh City and Dien Chau District in the central province of Nghe An since Wednesday midnight for Covid-19 prevention.

Vietnam will send a 19-member delegation to the Tokyo Paralympics in the near future, said deputy head of the Vietnam Sports Administration under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Hong Minh.