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A woman shopping at Big C Thăng Long Supermarket on Tuesday. All shopping malls in the capital city reopened on Tuesday after Hà Nội put the COVID-19 pandemic under control. VNA/VNS Photo Hoàng Hiếu HÀ NỘI – Việt Nam on Tuesday evening recorded 4,589 new COVID-19 cases, the lowest number of daily infections since July 19 when 4,175 infections were detected. These include 4,583 domestic infections with 717 being detected in the community. The number of locally transmitted cases decreased by more than 4,770 compared to yesterday. The country’s total number of infection cases has reached 770,640. A further 178 deaths were also reported throughout the country on Tuesday, bringing the total death toll to 18,936. Bình Dương reported the highest number of domestic cases today with 2,575, followed by the southern provinces of Đồng Nai (787), Long An (787), An Giang (232) and Long An (159). HCM City reported a remarkable decrease in the number of infections at 377. Other cases …

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Illustrative image (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) - Vietnam recorded an additional 9,362 COVID-19 infections, including 20 imported cases, in the past 24 hours to 5pm on September 27, according to the Ministry of Health. Ho Chi Minh City, the country’s current largest pandemic hotspot, reported the highest number of infections with 4,134 cases, followed by neighbouring Binh Duong province (3,793), Dong Nai (616) and Long An (190). The capital city reported one case. The country has to date logged 766,051 COVID-19 cases. A total of 10,528 patients were given the all-clear on September 27, raising the number of recoveries to 538,454. As many as 174 deaths related to the pandemic were announced on the day, raising the tally to 18.758. On September 26, 865,610 doses of COVID-19 vaccines were injected, bringing the total so far to 39,232,772./. VNA …

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Vietnam’s Ministry of Health has requested the country’s biggest city to explain the reason behind some 150,000 unreported positive coronavirus cases that were detected through mass testing since August 20. The request was made after health authorities of Ho Chi Minh City on Sunday asked the ministry to update to the national Covid-19 monitoring system the 150,000 positive cases found through rapid antigen tests, citing that the figure would cause significant changes to the city’s overall pandemic situation. If the cases get recognized, the southern city – currently the COVID-19 hotbed of the country – would see its death rate fall sharply to some 2.8 percent versus more than 4 percent as calculated previously, they explained. Therefore, the city’s Department of Health is required to explain the unrecognized COVID-19 cases and learn from its tardy consulting and reporting to the ministry, the health ministry said in its dispatch issued on Tuesday. The city earlier found the …

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The 4,589 new cases include six imported cases and 4,583 local infections found in Bình Dương (2,575), Đồng Nai (787), Hồ Chí Minh City (377), An Giang (232), Long An (159), Kiên Giang (70), Tây Ninh (55), Cần Thơ (52), Bình Thuận (48), Tiền Giang (38), Khánh Hòa (35), Ninh Thuận (16), Bình Phước (15), Quảng Bình (15), Đắk Lắk (14), Hậu Giang (11), Hà Nam (11), Cà Mau (10), Vĩnh Long (8 ), Trà Vinh (7), Đồng Tháp (7), Hà Nội (6), Đắk Nông (5), Bình Định (5), Quảng Ngãi (5), Quảng Trị (4), Phú Yên (3), Bà Rịa - Vũng Tàu (3), Quảng Ninh (2), Bến Tre (2), Quảng Nam (2), Đà Nẵng (2), Bắc Giang (1), and Bạc Liêu (1); 717 of these cases were detected in the community. An additional 178 COVID related deaths were announced, bringing the total to 18,936. …

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Hanoians were allowed to do outdoor exercises as of today after two months and a half. On Sept 28, Vietnam reported 4,589 coronavirus infections, the record low in the two months and a half. Today is the first day that the number of infections is one-fifth of the recovered. Ho Chi Minh City saw 377 cases, compared to 4,134 detected yesterday. So far, the country has 191,000 active cases, including nearly 19,000 deaths. Binh Duong has taken the lead with more than 206,000, or 8,410 cases per 100,000 residents, followed by Ho Chi Minh City with 4,162/100,000 residents, and Long An 1,896/100,000. Regarding vaccination, more than 40 million doses have been administered, including nearly nine million people fully vaccinated in Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh City topped localities for the number of vaccinated people. The city has been providing the second shots to around 40% of its seven million adults aged above 18. As part of efforts to mitigate damage caused by Covid-19, the Vietnam …

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Workers at a factory owned by Nestle Vietnam in southern Dong Nai Province. — VNA Photo The World Bank (WB) on Tuesday said the East Asia and Pacific region’s recovery had been hampered by the spread of the COVID-19 Delta variant, prolonging the distress for firms and households, likely slowing economic growth and increasing inequality in its October 2021 East Asia and Pacific Economic Update Briefing. “While China’s economy is projected to expand by 8.5 per cent, the rest of the region is forecast to grow at 2.5 per cent, nearly two percentage points less than forecast in April," said the WB. "Employment rates and labour force participation have dropped, and as many as 24 million people will not be able to escape poverty." While the region managed to contain the virus last year as other parts of the world struggled, the rise in cases since then had decreased growth prospects for this year, according to WB East Asia and Pacific vice-president Manuela Ferro. Ferro, however, …

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As scientists were unable to find a virus in either bats or another animal that matches the genetic signature of COVID-19, investigators said they were more open to considering a leak involving the Wuhan Institute of Virology. AFP/File photo WASHINGTON - The US intelligence community has reached "broad agreement" that the coronavirus was not developed as a bioweapon, and most US agencies assess with "low confidence" it was not genetically engineered, according to an unclassified summary of a report. But the community remains divided on the pathogen's origins, with four agencies and the National Intelligence Council judging in favor of natural exposure to an animal as the likely explanation, one agency favoring the lab leak theory and three unable to reach a conclusion. "Variations in analytic views largely stem from differences in how agencies weigh intelligence reporting and scientific publications, and intelligence and scientific gaps," the summary said. The intelligence …

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* Warren Fernandez Getting to school as a boy growing up in Singapore in the 1970s could be soggy affair at times. Tropical downpours overwhelmed drainage systems, leaving parts of the island impassable. Students braved the rains and rising waters, turning up wet and bedraggled, if they made it at all. Thankfully, this became a thing of the past by the late 1980s. Massive flood alleviation efforts caused this story to recede from newspaper front pages, as a modern city-state emerged. Yet, decades on, we seem to be heading back to the future. Severe storms are now becoming more frequent. The result: last month, pictures and videos of upscale districts in central Singapore inundated hit the headlines again, causing much consternation. But even as the authorities rushed to unveil plans in response to the public concerns, a minister warned that as intense rainfall was becoming more common with global warming, people might have to get used to flash floods from time to time. …

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Vietnam confirmed an additional 4,589 Covid-19 infections on Tuesday, which was the lowest daily case count reported in two months, according to the Ministry of Health. According to the ministry's report, 4,583 of the new patients are locally-transmitted cases confirmed in 34 localities including Binh Duong (2,575), Dong Nai (787), HCM City (377), An Giang (232), and Long An (159). There were six imported patients confirmed today. The new infection number showed a decrease of 4,759 cases compared to yesterday's figure. There were 717 infections found in the community. As of Tuesday evening, 766,110 infections have been reported since the new outbreak occurred in the country in late April. The outbreak has so far spread to 62 out of 63 cities and provinces nationwide. With these new infection cases, the number of Covid-19 patients in Vietnam has increased to 770,640. The country now stands 44th among 222 countries and territories worldwide in the number of …

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