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Vietnam to Test 1.1 Million People in City at Center of Outbreak
Medical workers perform a rapid Covid-19 test on individuals who recently returned from Danang, in Hanoi on July 31.
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Vietnam will test all residents of Danang, the city at the center of a coronavirus outbreak with 1.1 million people, Tuoi Tre newspaper reported, as the risk of a widening spread increases.
There were two more confirmed cases linked to the Danang outbreak, the health ministry said on Sunday, while another two were imported infections. More than 800,000 people had traveled to the coastal city since July 1, and returned to their home provinces and cities, according to the government, while about 41,000 people had visited three hospitals there where most of the infections occurred.