http://www.npr.org/2021/07/24/1020162186/vietnam-hanoi-lockdown-covid-cases-coronavirus
Vietnam Locks Down Hanoi For 15 Days As COVID-19 Cases Rise
July 24, 202112:00 PM ET
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Police officers guard barricades set up to control traffic in Hanoi,
Vietnam on Saturday. Vietnam announced a 15-day lockdown in the capital.
Hieu Dinh/AP
HANOI, Vietnam — Vietnam announced a 15-day lockdown in the capital
Hanoi starting Saturday as a coronavirus surge spread from the southern
Mekong Delta region.
The lockdown order, issued late Friday night, bans the gathering of more
than two people in public. Only government offices, hospitals and
essential businesses are allowed to stay open.
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Earlier in the week, the city had suspended all outdoor activities and
ordered non-essential businesses to close following an increase in
cases. On Friday, Hanoi reported 70 confirmed infections, the city's
highest, part of a record 7,295 cases in the country in the last 24 hours.
Nearly 5,000 of them are from Vietnam's largest metropolis, southern Ho
Chi Minh City, which has also extended its lockdown until Aug. 1.
In the latest wave of COVID-19 since April, Vietnam has recorded over
83,000 infections and 335 deaths.
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A meeting of the National Assembly that opened in Hanoi on Tuesday with
499 delegates is going ahead, although it was shortened to 12 from the
original 17 days.
The delegates have been vaccinated, are regularly tested for the
coronavirus and are traveling in a bubble, and are isolated at hotels,
according to the National Assembly.
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