AS Vietnam’s new Covid-19 epicentre Danang is battling an outbreak that has spread to at least 11 locations, the conversion of a sports stadium into a 1,000-bed field hospital there is close to completion, said the Health Ministry.
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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