Vietnam to review handling of foreign deaths after cremation incident


Chợ Rẫy Hospital in HCM City. — Photo from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' World and Vietnam Report.

HANOI (Vietnam News): Vietnamese authorities and local administrations will review protocols in dealing with deaths of foreign nationals due to Covid-19, spokesperson Lê Thị Thu Hằng said on Thursday (July 22).

She was speaking in response to reports from the South Korean Consulate General claiming a man in Ho Chi Minh City, currently the country’s biggest coronavirus hot spot, died of Covid-19 this month and was cremated without the family or the RoK diplomatic mission being notified.

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