A two-wheeler serviceman waits for customers outside his shop along a street in Hanoi. Vietnam has put its entire southern region in a two-week lockdown starting midnight on Sunday, as confirmed Covid-19 cases exceeded 3,000 for the third day in a row. - AFP
HANOI, July 18 (AP): Vietnam has put its entire southern region in a two-week lockdown starting midnight on Sunday, as confirmed Covid-19 cases exceeded 3,000 for the third day in a row.
The lockdown order includes the Mekong Delta and Ho Chi Minh City metropolis, the country’s financial and economic hub with over 35 million people - nearly a third of Vietnam's population.
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