A Grab delivery service personnel receives a take away food order from an eatery staff in Hanoi on May 25, 2021 as city authorities expanded closure orders to include restaurants dine services, barbershops and hair salons. - AFP
HANOI (Reuters): Vietnam widened lockdown measures in its industrialised north on Tuesday (May 25) to combat its biggest Covid-19 outbreak so far, as authorities reported a daily record in new cases that was more than double the previous high.
The health ministry announced 457 new Covid-19 infections on Tuesday, the biggest jump since the 190 cases seen on May 16, driven by clusters in factory zones in two northern provinces.
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