My Khe beach in Danang on Tuesday, a day after Vietnam suspended all flights and public transport into and out of the city due to the detection of the country's first cases of COVID-19 novel coronavirus in months. Photo: Hoang Khanh/AFP via Getty Images
Vietnam reported on Thursday nine more people had tested positive for COVID-19, taking the total number of locally transmitted cases to 43 since the outbreak resurfaced over the weekend.
Why it matters: The country's efforts in combating the novel coronavirus had been widely credited. It had gone 99 days without a locally transmitted case before a 57-year-old man tested positive last Saturday, per a Vietnamese government statement. Nobody has died from the virus in Vietnam.