FILE PHOTO: The nearly completed 800-bed field hospital, which was built inside an arena, is seen amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Da Nang, Vietnam August 5, 2020. Courtesy of Hoang Giam/Zing.vn/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam is close to completing the conversion of a sports stadium into a 1,000-bed field hospital in its new coronavirus epicentre Danang, the health ministry said on Thursday, as it battles an outbreak that has spread to at least 11 locations.
Aggressive contact-tracing, targeted testing and strict quarantining had helped Vietnam halt an earlier contagion, but it is now racing to control infections in the central city and beyond after a new outbreak ended a run of more than three months without domestic transmission.
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