THE nation approved its first Covid-19 vaccine and cut short a key ruling Communist Party meeting, state media reported, as the country battled its biggest coronavirus outbreak since the pandemic began.
Vietnam, a country of some 98 million people that has so far been highly successful in combating the virus, has recorded 180 new cases since reporting two locally transmitted cases in the northern province of Hai Duong on Thursday.
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