Covid-19: more than 80 new cases in Vietnam, the first in two months
A resident is tested in Hai Duong province on January 28, 2021, where the virus resurfaced after two months of lull in Vietnam.
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Vietnam confirmed 83 new cases of Covid-19 in two northern provinces on Thursday.
A first for 55 days and a daily record for the country which has so far been among the best in its management of the pandemic with just over 1,500 cases and only 35 deaths.
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Large-scale tests, tracing of contact cases, containment ... The authorities want to act quickly, very quickly to stem the epidemic which, according to the Ministry of Health, would be more serious than the previous wave.
The new cases have been identified in two northern provinces, not far from the capital Hanoi.
In Hai Duong, a worker in contact with a Vietnamese woman allegedly infected some of her colleagues at the factory.
The Vietnamese carrying the more contagious English variant tested positive when she returned to Osaka, Japan.
The factory was sealed off, as was the city and its 220,000 inhabitants.
Tens of thousands of tests will be performed over the next ten days.
In Quang Ninh, on the Chinese border, a security official at Van Don international airport was allegedly infected while accompanying international passengers in compulsory quarantine.
The airport has been closed and no more cars can leave or enter the province.
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