Shoppers in Danang give entrance tickets to security guards before entering a local market yesterday. Starting Aug 12, people in the city will use the tickets to go to the market every other day. — VNA/VNS
HANOI (Reuters): Vietnam's Prime Minister said on Wednesday (Aug 12) that the next 10 days would be critical in the South-east Asian country's fight against a new coronavirus outbreak, which resurfaced late last month after three months of no domestic cases.
Vietnam was lauded for suppressing an earlier contagion through aggressive testing, contact-tracing and quarantining, but it is now racing to control infections in multiple locations linked to the popular holiday city of Danang, where a new outbreak was detected on July 25.
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