A medical specialist wearing a protective suit opens a test kit at a rapid testing center for Covid-19 outside Hanoi, Vietnam July 30, 2020. - Reuters
HANOI (Reuters): Vietnam reported 10 new Covid-19 infections and two deaths on Tuesday (Aug 4), lifting its total cases to 652, with eight dead, as the capital Hanoi said it was running short of the rapid testing kits being used to keep a new outbreak at bay.
Targeted testing and strict quarantining had helped Vietnam contain earlier outbreaks, but it is battling a new cluster of infections after going more than three months without detecting any domestic transmission.
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