Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News — November 5

What you need to know today in Vietnam:

Politics

-- Vietnam and France need to further economic, trade, and investment cooperation, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed at their meeting in Paris on Thursday.

Society

-- Health workers gave Pfizer-BioNTech shots to 18 babies, two to six months old, in Hanoi on Wednesday, the local Department of Health said on Friday. They should have been injected with vaccines against diseases other than COVID-19, the department elaborated. 

-- The U.S., Japan, the UK, and Belarus have announced they recognize Vietnam's 'vaccine passport,' suject to criteria on vaccine types, the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Thursday.

-- Ho Chi Minh City will vaccinate people aged 12-17 against COVID-19 even though they have recovered from the respiratory disease, according to the municipal Department of Health. 

-- The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam has put forward a plan to reopen regular international flights in four stages, from the fourth quarter of this year to July 2022.

Business

-- The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership trade pact, to which Vietnam is party, will take effect on January 1, 2022 after Australia and New Zealand have endorsed it, Kyodo News quoted Dan Tehan, Australia's minister for trade, tourism and investment, as saying on Tuesday. 

World News

-- "President Joe Biden will enforce a mandate that workers at U.S. companies with at least 100 employees be vaccinated against COVID-19 or be tested weekly starting Jan. 4, spurring legal challenges from Republican governors who say Biden is overstepping his authority," Reuters reported.

-- Reuters cited vaccine developer Novavax Inc. as saying on Thursday the company had completed submitting data to the World Health Organization for the potential emergency use listing of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate.

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