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The national COVID-19 caseload rose to 11,495,772 with 541 new cases recorded on October 20, according to the Ministry of Health. ​

The following is a brief review of the day’s events as reported by the Vietnam News Agency on October 20.

The State Bank of Vietnam set the daily reference exchange rate for the US dollar at 23,682 VND/USD on October 20, up 19 VND from the previous day.

The following is a list of selected news summaries last night by the Vietnam News Agency.

Mini statue is a new kind of gift. It's a bit like photography. However, people can touch, hold or display this physical gift.

Today the market welcomes a large number of retail customers, who come to buy flowers for their beloved women on the occasion of the founding of the Vietnam Women's Union anniversary (October 20).

Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan on October 19 hosted a reception for female ambassadors and chargés d' affaires from foreign diplomatic representative agencies in Vietnam on the occasion of the Vietnamese Women’s Day (October 20).

The second plenary session of the 15th National Assembly (NA) will open at the NA House in Hanoi on October 20.

The central city of Da Nang plans to reboot local tourism from October 20, as the COVID-19 pandemic has been under control.

The preparations for the second session of the 15th National Assembly (NA) will be conducted thoroughly in terms of contents, organisation method and necessary conditions to ensure that it will open as scheduled on October 20, the NA Standing Committee affirmed at its ongoing second meeting on August 18.

A new imported case of COVID-19 was detected during the past 12 hours, taking the national tally to 1,141 as of 6pm on October 20, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

The State Bank of Vietnam set the daily reference exchange rate at 23,191 VND per USD on October 20, down 5 VND from the previous day.

Vietnam logged zero new COVID-19 cases within the past 12 hours as of 6 a.m. on October 20, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

The 10th session of the 14th-tenure National Assembly (NA) is scheduled to open on October 20 and last for 19 days, with both online and face-to-face meetings, NA Secretary General and Chairman of the NA Office Nguyen Hanh Phuc has said.

In Vietnam, people celebrate women’s day twice a year. They observe national women’s day on October 20 and again international women’s day on March 8.

Various activities will be held across the nation in the upcoming days to celebrate the 88th anniversary of the Vietnam Women's Union (VWU) and Vietnam Women's Day, which falls on October 20 each year.

The second session of the 14th National Assembly (NA) will convene on October 20 morning, the NA Secretary-General announced in a press release on October 19.