Local authorities attributed the rampant smuggling to legal loopholes in which regulations on destroying smuggled cigarette remain unclear while demand for cigarette is on the rise.

Nearly half of the newly-detected cases are students coming from Europe.

A doctor in Hanoi who is responsible for treating Covid-19 patients is among the infected cases today.

The project, scheduled to complete by 2022, is expected to be the pride of An Giang province, the hometown of Vietnam’s late President Ton Duc Thang.

Vietnam shares border lines of more than 1,100 km with Cambodia and roughly 2,300 km with Laos.