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Vietnam enters 62th day with no COVID-19 community infections

Vietnam has no COVID-19 cases to report over the last 12 hours, keeping the national tally at 1,192, the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control reported on November 3.

Of the total, 691 cases were locally infected, including 551 cases linked to the COVID-19 outbreak in Da Nang.

The country has gone through 62 consecutive days without local transmissions with all coronavirus hotspots brought under control.

Among the active cases, nine have tested negative for the virus once, seven twice and six thrice. There are no patients under critical conditions and the number of recoveries has reached 1,065.

The death toll remains at 35.

As many as 14,775 people having close contact with COVID-19 patients or entering Vietnam from pandemic-hit areas are under quarantine at hospitals, state-designated centres or home./.
VNA/VNP

Green-tech push for Can Gio

Green-tech push for Can Gio

Vietnam has the capacity, ambition and technological foundation to join the group of leading sustainable coastal urban nations in the coming decade, experts said at a dialogue on "advancing to the sea with ESG++ megacities: breakthroughs through green technology", held on December 9 in Hanoi by the Vietnam Institute for Real Estate Studies (VIRES).

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