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Vietnam back on Covid-19 alert after first local infection in 3 months

CORONAVIRUS | Vietnam was back on high alert for the novel coronavirus today after medical officials in the central city of Danang detected what appears to be the first local Covid-19 case in the Southeast Asian country for three months.

Thanks to strict quarantine measures and an aggressive and widespread testing programme, Vietnam has kept its virus total to an impressively low 415 cases, and had reported no locally transmitted infections for 100 days...

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