A policeman keeps guard while residents wait to be tested at a makeshift rapid testing centre as Vietnam records a rise in cases of the Covid-19 in Hanoi on July 31, 2020. - AFP
HANOI (Reuters): Vietnam recorded its first death from Covid-19 on Friday (July 31) after winning plaudits worldwide for one of the most successful pandemic responses to containing the novel coronavirus outbreak.
The country of 96 million had gone 100 days without infection before an unexpected cluster of new cases surfaced in the central and popular resort city of Danang a week ago.
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