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At the online celebration event (Photo: VNA) Pretoria (VNA) – Head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for External Relations Le Hoai Trung has cabled a congratulatory message to the South African Communist Party (SACP) on the occasion of its 100th founding anniversary . Vietnam News Agency (VNA) reporter, SACP’s spokesperson Dr. Alex Mashilo spoke highly of the presence of representatives from the Vietnamese Embassy in South Africa and VNA reporters at the celebration of the party's anniversary amid the COVID-19 pandemic, which he said is evidence of the Communist Party of Vietnam’s attention to the international communist movement as well as its support for the SACP. VNA …

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Cong, 27, a volunteer at the Hanoi charity that assists women and children in crises, Blue Dragon Children's Foundation, received a phone call from someone on Saturday evening saying there was a pregnant woman in labor needing to be taken to hospital immediately. It took Cong only five minutes to reach the woman's dormitory in Hoan Kiem District. He saw some people from the neighborhood standing outside looking into the room where the woman was in labor. Because of Hanoi’s stringent 15-day social distancing campaign, the people just stood and watched and did know what to do besides being wary of the risk of Covid infection. He picked up the phone and was about to dial an emergency number when he heard the sounds of a baby crying coming from the room. The mother and her baby after arriving to the hospital thanks to Bui Van Cong’s help. Photo courtesy of Blue Dragon. Cong says: "I ran in and saw the pregnant woman was already on the floor and the baby's head had …

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Khổng Minh Tuấn. Khổng Minh Tuấn, the deputy director of the Hà Nội Centre for Disease Control (CDC), talks to the Hà Nội Mới (New Hà Nội) newspaper about the current COVID-19 pandemic situation in Hà Nội. Will the number of COVID-19 cases in the city continue to increase in the coming days? As of Saturday, Hà Nội has implemented social distancing according to Directive No. 17/CT-UBND issued by the Chairman of the Hà Nội People's Committee for one week.  We will be able to trace most of the F0s after seven to 10 days of implementing social distancing. Therefore, during this time we will see an increasing number of new positive cases. As expected, the number of new cases will continue to increase in the following two days. But after at least 10 days of implementing social distancing, together with everyone’s strict compliance with pandemic prevention measures, the number of cases should gradually decrease. From 6 pm on July 29 to 6 pm on July 30, Hà Nội recorded 119 new …

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