Residents wait to be tested at a makeshift rapid testing centre in Hanoi, on July 31, 2020.- AFP
BANGKOK (The Straits Times/ANN): Faced with its single biggest daily increase in coronavirus infections, Vietnam has swung into full battle mode, shutting bars and suspending events in its biggest cities while trying to contain the situation in Danang, the epicentre of the latest outbreak.
The coastal tourism hub logged 45 new Covid-19 infections on Friday morning (July 31)among individuals who had been isolated since new community transmissions were first detected over the weekend.
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