Workers prepare a make-shift field hospital inside the Tien Son sports complex amid the spread of Covid-19 in Danang on Aug 5, 2020. - AFP
HANOI (Reuters): Vietnam is close to completing the conversion of a sports stadium into a 1,000-bed field hospital in its new coronavirus epicentre Danang, the health ministry said on Thursday (Aug 6), as it battles an outbreak that has spread to at least 11 locations.
Aggressive contact-tracing, targeted testing and strict quarantining had helped Vietnam halt an earlier contagion, but it is now racing to control infections in the central city and beyond after a new outbreak ended a run of more than three months without domestic transmission.
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