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“#Vietnam locks down capital Hanoi for 15 days as cases rise<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\n Policemen guard behind barricades set up to control the traffic in Hanoi, Vietnam, Saturday, July 24, 2021. Vietnam announced a 15-day lockdown in the capital Hanoi starting Saturday as a coronavirus surge spread from the southern Mekong Delta region. Credit: AP Photo\/Hieu Dinh
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Vietnam announced a 15-day lockdown in the capital Hanoi starting Saturday as a coronavirus surge spread from the southern Mekong Delta region.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

In the latest wave of COVID-19 since April, Vietnam has recorded over 83,000 infections and 335 deaths.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The delegates have been vaccinated, are regularly tested for the coronavirus and are travel<\/a>ing in a bubble, and are isolated at hotels, according to the National Assembly.<\/p>\n