Via VietnamPlus: Vietnam logs additional 10,280 COVID-19 cases. Excerpt and then another link:
Vietnam recorded 10,280 new COVID-19 infections, including 10,266 domestic and 14 imported cases, in the past 24 hours to 6pm on August 23, the Ministry of Health announced.
Ho Chi Minh City, which is the current largest pandemic hotspot of the country, logged 4,251 infections, followed by its neighbouring provinces of Binh Duong, with 3,183 cases and Dong Nai, with 623 cases. ...
Meanwhile, 389 more fatalities were confirmed, lifting the death toll to 8,666, or 2.4 percent of the total number of infections, equivalent to the world’s average rate.
Surprisingly, VietnamPlus doesn't mention the fact that troops are now patrolling Ho Chi Minh City to enforce a serious community lockdown:
Vietnamese soldiers have been deployed on the streets of Ho Chi Minh City to help enforce a lockdown in the country's business hub, which has become the epicentre of its worst coronavirus outbreak so far during the pandemic.
Panic-buying broke out at supermarkets in the city of 9 million people over the weekend ahead of the tighter lockdown, which started on Monday and prohibits residents from leaving their homes.
Vietnam's toughest order yet comes amid a spike in fatalities and infections from the Delta variant.
The restrictions will remain in place for at least two weeks.
Soldiers on Monday were checking permits of residents on the streets and delivering food, according to witnesses and photographs on state media.
The city began movement restrictions early last month, but infections have continued to surge after authorities said there had not been strict-enough enforcement of the curbs.
