An eyeglasses store stands shuttered during a partial lockdown imposed due to the coronavirus in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam, on April 1, 2020. Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc ordered a 15-day period of isolation nationwide beginning Wednesday. - Bloomberg
HANOI (Xinhua): Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc signed a decree on Wednesday (April 1) to declare a nationwide epidemic in Vietnam.
The Covid-19 epidemic is spreading nationwide, the decree noted, adding that it is classified as a Class A contagious disease, which is defined as a group of "extremely dangerous infectious diseases that can transmit very rapidly and spread widely with high mortality rates" according to the Vietnamese law.
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