PHU QUOC, Vietnam -- Before there were daily flights to the island of Phu Quoc, passenger Ly Nhu would arrive on a slow boat from mainland Vietnam seated beside vegetables and other cargo. But two decades of tourism and construction had transformed the past solitude of the island into a distant memory for Nhu.
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Vietnam began trials of vaccine passports in Phu Quoc, but beaches and bars were still nearly empty in December. (Photo by Lien Hoang)
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