A customer pays in a corner shop where a plastic divider is installed as a measure against the spread of the coronavirus disease at a shop in Hanoi, Vietnam, February 18, 2021. - Reuters
HANOI Feb 20 (AFP): Two million people in Vietnam were put under a raft of restrictions starting this week, after their northern province became the epicentre of a growing Covid-19 outbreak.
Residents of Hai Duong province have been ordered to stay at home for 15 days, state media reported, as a nation widely praised for its handling of the pandemic struggles to extinguish a troubling new outbreak.
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