Tuesday, July 06, 2021, 08:58 GMT+7
Vietnam’s 13th Party Central Committee opens its third plenum in Hanoi, July 5, 2021. Photo: Vietnam News Agency
Here are today’s leading news stories:
Politics
-- The 13th Party Central Committee opened its third plenum in Hanoi on Monday under the chair of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong. The five-day plenum discusses and makes a decision on a number of important issues relating to the socio-economic development plan in 2021-25.
COVID-19 Updates
-- The Ministry of Health documented 277 local COVID-19 patients, including 230 cases in Ho Chi Minh City, on Tuesday morning, raising the country’s tally to 21,312, with 8,022 recoveries and 90 deaths.