On the night of January 28, 31-year-old doctor Vu Tri Tue of the endocrinology department of the Vietnam – Sweden Hospital in Quang Ninh Province’s Uong Bi District, walked from house to house to take swab samples in Dong Trieu Town, a Covid-19 hotspot.
Several hours earlier, Vietnam had been shaken by the latest Covid-19 community transmissions in the provinces of Hai Duong and Quang Ninh, breaking a streak of 55 clean days. The outbreak has since spread to 10 localities.
That was not the first time that Tue was joining the fight against the pandemic, but it was the first time he was dealing with it an emergency situation.
“I left on the mission just 30 minutes after I was informed,” Tue said. He grabbed a white blouse and phone charger as he left his wife and children.
Medics visit a house to collect samples and details of residents, January 28, 2021. Photo courtesy of Vietnam -… |
