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Vietnam reports no new COVID-19 cases for 16 days, total remains at 270

Vietnam recorded no new COVID-19 cases over the past 16 consecutive days, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

Among the total 270 infections, 219 have recovered, and there are still no deaths.

Fifty-one other patients are being treated at hospitals and medical facilities, including 16 tested negative for the SARS-CoV-2 once or twice.

On May 1, two patients including a 52-year-old Brazilian man and a 25-year-old British man who had previously been given the all-clear tested positive again, according to the Health Department of Ho Chi Minh City.

To date, 30,517 people having close contact with patients or entering from pandemic-hit areas have been quarantined at hospital, medical centres and home./.
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Vietnamese, Panamanian first ladies bond over ethnic textiles at Hanoi cultural event

Vietnamese, Panamanian first ladies bond over ethnic textiles at Hanoi cultural event

Madame Ngo Phuong Ly, spouse of General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee and President To Lam, and Madame Maricel Cohen de Mulino, spouse of Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino, attended a cultural event showcasing Vietnam's ethnic minority groups at Van Lake, part of the Temple of Literature complex in Hanoi on October 6.

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