Vietnam scrambles to control COVID at industrial parks

Shutdown of 4 sites has Japan, Taiwan and other manufacturers worried

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Since May 3, around 17,000 workers in Ho Chi Minh City have had samples taken for coronavirus testing. (File photo by Reuters)

TOMOYA ONISHI, Nikkei staff writer

HANOI -- After shutting down four industrial parks in northern Vietnam on Tuesday, authorities are scrambling to smother outbreaks of COVID-19 at other parks to protect the country's position as a regional manufacturing hub.

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