Vietnam will deploy troops in the city to enforce the lockdown and deliver food supplies to citizens. - Reuters
HANOI, Aug 21 (Reuters): Vietnam's plan to prohibit residents of Ho Chi Minh City from leaving their homes from Monday has triggered panic buying in the epicentre of its worst coronavirus outbreak.
The scramble for purchases is hurting efforts in the nation's largest city to contain the spiralling Covid-19 outbreak, said the official Vietnam News Agency.
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