In Vietnam’s COVID epicentre, ‘everyone is struggling to survive’
2021-09-07 09:43:47 source：The Aljazeera
September 7, 2021
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam – Each phone call from Vietnam causes Thai Duong’s heart to skip a few beats.
For Duong, who grew up in District 4 of Ho Chi Minh City but currently lives in California, every contact with home poses the possibility of bad news. He has lost four family members to COVID-19 since Vietnam’s fourth wave turned the country’s containment of the virus from a success story to a nightmare.
No location has been worse hit than Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s biggest city, where Duong’s uncle died of COVID-19 on September 3 after he was placed in the hospital’s tiered system at the level for those in the most critical condition.
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