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Each morning, we select some of the most important stories from Saigon, the rest of Vietnam and beyond, and digest them into short, accessible links so you can easily keep up with current affairs.

Saigon

- HCMC education authority encourages students to wear facemasks in classrooms. [SGGP]

- Saigon orders bars, discos to close down over COVID-19. [Tuoi Tre]

- 121 HCMC health workers in contact with Covid-19 patients test negative. [Saigon Times] 

Vietnam

- 219 Vietnamese citizens brought home from Equatorial Guinea. [SGGP]

- Vietnam to host AFC Cup group games for ASEAN zone. [Tuoi Tre]

- 45 patients, family members at Da Nang hospitals infected with Covid-19. [VnExpress]

- Eleven critical patients from Danang sent to Hue for treatment. [Saigon Times]

- Scaffolding collapses, killing three workers in Hanoi. [VnExpress]

Other

- Rising Seas Could Menace Millions Beyond Shorelines, Study Finds. [New York Times]

- US ‘considering’ measures to let Hongkongers settle in the country in wake of national security law. [SCMP] 

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