Vietnam back on coronavirus alert after first local infection in 3 months

Men play foot badminton in front of a wall mural along a sidewalk in Hanoi on July 24, 2020. Vietnam was back on high alert for the coronavirus on Saturday (july 25) after medical officials in the central city of Danang detected, its first locally transmitted case for three months. - Reuters

HANOI, July 25 (Reuters): Vietnam was back on high alert for the Covid-19 (coronavirus) on Saturday after medical officials in the central city of Danang detected, its first locally transmitted case for three months.

Thanks to strict quarantine measures and an aggressive and widespread testing programme, the Southeast Asian country has kept its virus total to an impressively low 415 cases and had reported no locally transmitted infections for 100 days.