A man walks past closed restaurants along a barricaded street in Hanoi on Aug 9, 2021, amidst the government imposed two-week lockdown to stop the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus. - AFP
HANOI, Aug. 9 (Xinhua): Eyeing a 6.5-per cent gross domestic product (GDP) growth in 2021, with less than five months to go, Vietnam has yet to overcome its worst wave of Covid-19 infections so far.
As of Sunday, a total of 208,060 domestically transmitted cases had been registered in the country, including 206,490 since April 27, when the wave started.
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