HANOI (Reuters) – The airport in the central Vietnamese resort town of Danang filled up on Monday after three residents tested positive for the coronavirus and began evacuating 80,000 people. The Southeast Asian country is on high alert after authorities confirmed the community’s first infections since Saturday, and three other …
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