ARI SHAPIRO, HOST:
Now let's head to Vietnam, where the coronavirus lockdown is
easing. Restaurants and some other businesses are opening, though most schools
remain closed. The Southeast Asian nation has just 270 confirmed cases and no
deaths. Mass quarantine and aggressive contact tracing have helped convince
authorities it's time to ease restrictions. Michael Sullivan reports.
MICHAEL SULLIVAN, BYLINE: Vietnam has fought and beaten many
aggressors in the last thousand years or so - the Chinese, the French and, of
course, the Americans. And it's couched its response to the coronavirus in
military terms as well, calling it the spring offensive of 2020.
SULLIVAN: If Vietnam and its people are united, Vietnam can
win against the pandemic, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam said earlier this
month. If fighting COVID-19 has been a war, then we have won battles, he said,
but not the entire war.
SULLIVAN: It's early morning in central Hanoi, and hundreds
stand waiting for handouts at one of the so-called rice ATMs, which have
sprouted in the country's big cities. Most wait patiently. One even sings as
she waits. The delivery system is simple. A plastic pipe sticking out of a
makeshift panel pours about six pounds of rice into each person's bag.
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