A man looks at a display screen inside an elevator asking for public donation to Vietnam’s national fund for Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine in Hanoi on June 8, 2021. - AFP
HANOI (AFP): Vietnam, once a model for its successful handling of the pandemic, has started asking for public donations to buy vaccines as it struggles to contain a new coronavirus wave.
The Southeast Asian country has vaccinated only about one per cent of its population of nearly 100 million, and authorities have become increasingly alarmed by a recent spike in cases.
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