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A student in Tuy Hoa (Phu Yen province) receives the first booster shot of Covid-19 vaccine. Photo: VNA)

National Covid-19 caseload rises to 11,365,784 on August 14

The national Covid-19 caseload rose to 11,365,784 on August 14, according to the Ministry of Health. ​

With 5,932 patients given the all clear during the day, the number of recoveries rose to 10,020,569.

Meanwhile, there are 106 patients in serious conditions needing breathing support, cited VNA.

One death from Covid-19 was recorded in the past 24 hours. The total fatalities rose to 43,098.

On August 13, an additional 311,386 doses of vaccines were administered, raising the total number of doses of Covid-19 vaccines injected to 251,304,132.

Army Games 2022: Vietnam’s first tank crew begin competition

Crew No.1 of the Vietnamese tank team competed in the qualifying round in Group 1 of the “Tank biathlon” event in the framework of the Army Games 2022 in Russia on August 13.

This year’s “Tank biathlon” event attracts the participation of 61 crews of 21 teams, divided into two groups.

The first group consists of teams from Azerbaijan, Belarus, Venezuela, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, China, Uzbekistan, and Mongolia, while the second group draws Abkhazia, Armenia, Zimbabwe, Iran, Laos, Mali, Myanmar, Syria, Sudan, Tajikistan, and South Ossetia.

Vietnam’s first tank crew compete at the Army Games 2022 in Russia on August 13. Photo: VOV

Teams in Group 1 will compete in the qualifying round to select the top eight to enter the semi-final round and then the best four for the final round. Meanwhile, those in Group 2 should only join a round-robin format for the next.

The Vietnamese tank crew completed their task, destroying four targets out of five and finishing the race after 34 minutes 53 seconds, according to VOV.

Meanwhile, crews from the Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan destroyed all five targets and finished the race after 25 minutes 57 seconds, and 25 minutes and 18 seconds, respectively.

The Venezuela rivals destroyed only one target and finished their competition after 47 minutes 5 seconds.

Crews No. 2 and 3 of the Vietnamese tank team will compete on August 16 and 20.

Air passengers reach record number in July

The number of air passengers reached nearly 12 million in July, including over 10.5 million on domestic flights, an increase of 40.3% compared to July 2019 before the Covid-19 outbreak, said the Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV).

Along with a sharp increase in the number of passengers, flight cancellations and delays also increased rapidly, partly due to airlines’ errors.

Crowds at the Noi Bai international airport, Hanoi. Photo: VNA

CAAV said flight delays and cancellations in the past month had increased dramatically many times, causing frustration in public and affecting the quality of aviation services. It attributed the problem to many bottlenecks in the airport infrastructure and unusual weather, reported NDO.

In the past month, the proportion of delayed flights accounted for more than 18% of the total number of licensed flights or more than 6,000 flights, an increase of 16% over the same period last year and equivalent to June.

During the month, 41 flights were cancelled due to technical factors and late flights. In July, the on-time rate of flights was only 81% out of the total of more than 33,200 flights.

Vietnam stock market remains attractive to foreign investors

Foreign investors net purchased 14.8 million stocks, worth some VND80 billion during the week from August 8 – 12, showing that the Vietnamese securities market remained attractive to them.

The benchmark VN-Index on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HOSE) has risen for the fifth week straight on the back of oil, steel and electricity securities, after hitting a bottom of around 1,140 points in early July, cited VOV.

Photo: VOV

It ended the week at 1,262.33 points, 9.59 points higher than the previous week, gradually approaching the next resistance zone of 1260–1285 points.

On the Hanoi Stock Exchange (HNX), the HNX-Index picked up 3.52 points to settle at 303.42 points on August 12. UPCoM-Index also inched up 1.52 points to 92.84 points.

Vietnam team claim four medals at Int’l Informatics Olympiad

All four students in the Vietnamese team have brought home a medal at the 34th International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI 2022) hosted by Indonesia.

Tran Xuan Bach, a 11th grader at the HUS High School for Gifted Students, Vietnam National University, won a gold medal at the competition, VNA reported.

All four students in the Vietnamese team win a medal at the 34th International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI 2022). Photo: Ministry of Education and Training

The three silver medalists are all 12th grade students, including Duong Minh Khoi also from HUS High School for Gifted Students, Le Huu Nghia from Binh Long High School for Gifted Students in Binh Phuoc, and Truong Van Quoc Bao from Nghe An’s Phan Boi Chau High School for Gifted Students.

The IOI 2022 was held both in-person and virtually from August 7 – 14. The Vietnamese contestants took part in the competition remotely from Vietnam.

This year, it gathered 349 contestants from 89 countries and territories. It presented 30 gold, 58 silver and 88 bronze medals.

With a gold and three silvers, Vietnam ranked ninth in the medal table, after China, Japan, the US, the Republic of Korea, Iran, Ukraine, Croatia and Taiwan (China).

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