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Football Coach Park Hang-seo of Việt Nam (centre), who is suspended for the  2022 World Cup qualifier, is still confident his team will triumph against the UAE on Tuesday. Photo webthethao.vn HÀ NỘI — Việt Nam will have to do without head coach Park Hang-seo in the 2022 World Cup qualifying match against the host UAE on Tuesday but the South Korean is confident of a good result in his absence. Park is suspended for the match after he was given a second yellow card in the 2-1 win over Malaysia on Friday night in Dubai's Al-Maktoum Stadium. The 63-year-old acted aggressively when his midfielder Nguyễn Phong Hồng Duy was fouled by Malaysia’s Liridon Krasniqi near the end of the game. His reaction resulted in a yellow card from Japanese referee Sato Ryuji. He was also booked in the match against Thailand on September 5, 2019. "I have received two cards and manage the team against the UAE. My reaction is to help Việt Nam reach our target of advancing to the last qualifying round. If we have good result and qualify, then my mission is complete," Park said. "I watched the UAE in a match against Malaysia and we played them already in the first leg match. But I have to confess that I have not searched them carefully to know how different they are now. "They are really a strong team. We are on top of the group but UAE players' physique and technique are among the best in Asia. But I still have plan which will be used to help us win this match.” It is the second time that Park has been banned. At the 30th Southeast Asian Games last December in the Philippines, he received a red card and was sidelined for four matches after an angry exchange with referee Majed Al-Shamrani during the final between Việt Nam and Indonesia when his midfielder Nguyễn Trọng Hoàng was fouled by an Indonesian player but escaped a warning. Park's assistant Lee Young-jin will take charge of the team on Tuesday. Việt Nam with 17 points need only a draw result to make history. A …

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Youngsters donate blood at the 2020 Chủ nhật đỏ (Red Sunday) Blood Donation Festival in Hà Nội. — VNS Photo Thanh Hải HÀ NỘI — Health experts have called on the community to maintain blood donation activities to ensure blood sources for emergency aid and treatment at hospitals on the occasion of World Blood Donor Day (June 14). President of the Việt Nam Red Cross Society and Permanent Deputy Head of the National Steering Committee for Voluntarily Blood Donation Mobilisation, Nguyễn Thị Xuân Thu, said that COVID-19 seriously impacted blood donation mobilisation and collection activities. “On this occasion, we call on those who are healthy enough to donate blood, which is the responsibility and sacred duty of every citizen. I also request the Steering Committees at all levels and relevant authorities to honour and praise typical examples of blood donation and mobilise relatives and friends to participate in blood donation, especially amid the COVID-19 outbreak in the community,” said Thu. The appeal was made as blood shortages have occurred across the country due to a decline in blood donors amid the COVID-19 pandemic spreading in many provinces and cities nationwide. “Each unit of blood is valuable as a lifebuoy for the patient. I want each person to stay healthy so that they can keep a regular blood donation rhythm and to give patients the safest blood source,” said the National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion director Bạch Quốc Khánh. Khánh said the COVID-19 pandemic has greatly affected blood donation activities and blood transfusion safety globally as well as in Việt Nam. Despite challenges of organising blood donations during the pandemic, millions of people around the world still continue to make efforts to donate blood, including blood for treating COVID-19 patients. “Over one million blood donations in our country in 2020 and tens of thousands of people who came to donate blood during the COVID-19 outbreak have shown …

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Viêt Nam reports 194 new COVID-19 cases, one more death on Sunday Việt Nam approves Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use Students to cool summer heat for frontline health workers Patients delay hospital visits due to fear of COVID-19 MARD seeks to boost consumption of farm produce The HCM City Hospital for Tropical Diseases has been temporarily locked down. — Photo suckhoedoisong.vn HCM CITY — The HCM City Hospital for Tropical Diseases has immediately begun preventive activities after a new case of COVID-19 was detected there. The patient is an employee of the information technology department and tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 on Friday. The hospital urgently implemented a rapid screening protocol and put plans in action to quarantine and take samples from all medical staff. By Sunday morning, the hospital had completed RT-PCR tests for 887 employees and detected 53 positive cases for SARS-CoV-2. The hospital also tested all 88 patients in severe departments such as tetanus, encephalitis, HIV/AIDS and chronic liver disease units. All of these tests were negative. The 53 employees who are positive are currently quarantined and receiving treatment, with 52, who have been vaccinated, completely asymptomatic. HCM City on Sunday loosened social distancing in Gò Vấp District after the COVID-19 situation there was put under control. Leaders of the city requested the district authorities continue monitoring and ask people to make health declarations if they show symptoms of COVID-19. — VNS …

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