A desk apart: Students wearing face masks and maintaining their distance from each other inside a classroom at the Marie Curie school in Hanoi. — AFP
Millions of schoolchildren in Vietnam have returned to class after the country reported its 17th straight day of no domestically transmitted coronavirus infections.
The decision to reopen schools came after the Southeast Asian nation eased social distancing measures at the end of April – with experts pointing to a decisive response involving mass quarantines and expansive contact tracing for its apparent success in containing the disease.
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