Television host John Oliver took aim at misinformation among the Vietnamese diaspora in the U.S., stressing how social media have perpetuated harmful content while lauding fact-checking efforts.
Vietnam has received another 1,999,530 Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine doses from the U.S. via Covax, bringing the total number of doses from the U.S. to Vietnam to 9.5 million.
A batch of 1,499,940 million Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine doses has been delivered to Vietnam by the U.S. through global vaccine access mechanism Covax.
A man in Dak Nong Province has been fined VND7.5 million ($327.48) for changing his negative coronavirus test to positive, so he would not have to go to work.
Storm Conson has triggered heavy rains of up to 250 millimeters per session in central Vietnam on Saturday, and would make landfall in central Vietnam around Sunday.
Storm Conson, the fifth to appear in South China Sea this year, has reached the Paracel Islands and is expected to cause heavy rains starting Friday night.
