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Danang under Lockdown

Danang under Lockdown

‘We had to destroy the city to save it’

Aug 31, 2021
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By: Ben Quick

On my street, no flags fly. Danang, which lies on the coast halfway between the capital, Hanoi, and Ho Chi Minh City, has been in a state of chaos since August 14, when the local peoples' committee warned residents that a "radical lockdown" was imminent. In the three days preceding the lockdown, throngs of desperate shoppers crowded the ais…

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