Even before a commune in the northern Vietnamese province of Vinh Phuc was shut off from the outside world, villagers struggled to cope with the reality that a handful of their neighbors had been diagnosed with the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), out of Vietnam’s 16 confirmed cases. Vinh Phuc is struggling with its new ‘reputation’ as the epicenter of the COVID-19 epidemic in Vietnam as news continues spreading that 11 out of the country’s 16 diagnosed cases hail from the province. Three of the infected patients in Vinh Phuc have recovered so far while the remaining continue their battle against the virus. Six of Vinh Phuc’s COVID-19 patients reside in Son Loi, a commune of 10,600 people in Binh Xuyen District that has been sealed off for 20 days from Wednesday for quarantine. Before the lockdown, Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper’s reporters made it to Ai Van, a small village in Son Loi, to see first-hand how villagers are coping with the uncertainty of life in the now-quarantined commune. An empty street in Ai Van Village in Son Loi Commune, Binh Xuyen District, Vinh Phuc Province, Vietnam is seen in this photo taken on February 11, 2020. Photo: Nguyen Khanh / Tuoi Tre According… Read full this story
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