Workers assembling medical ventilators, which will be used by Covid-19 novel coronavirus patients, at a Vingroup production facility in Hanoi on Monday (Aug 3, 2020). - AFP+
HANOI, Aug 3 (Reuters): Vietnam has no plans for a widespread lockdown and will only put areas considered epicentres under strict quarantine, the government's spokesperson said on Monday.
"We will only implement social distancing in areas considered virus epicentres, and will not pursue a widespread lockdown," Mai Tien Dung, the government's spokesman, told a monthly press conference on Monday.
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