Vietnam on Tuesday locked down its third-largest city for two weeks after . . .
15 cases of COVID-19 were found in a hospital, the government said.
Public transport into and out of the central city of Da Nang was cancelled. Over the weekend, thousands of mostly Vietnamese tourists had to end their summer holidays in the popular beach destination. The lockdown has dealt a hard blow to the city’ tourism industry, which was just being revived after earlier coronavirus cases mostly subsided at the end of April.
Vietnam has been one of the major CV-19 success stories. Close to China, a population of 100M, densely populated. And the gov't took strong and effective measures.
15 cases, all in a hospital no less, and they're putting in a full 2 week city lockdown.
All 15 cases in the new outbreak are patients and health workers at Da Nang hospital. With the new infections, Vietnam has reported 431 cases of COVID-19 without a death.