Vietnam starts reopening schools after year-long pandemic closure

A family wears protective masks as they ride a motorbike in the street amid the coronavirus disease outbreak in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Jan 29, 2021.HANOI - More than 17 million Vietnamese students were due to return to school on Monday for the first time in about a year, the health ministry said, as authorities announced plans to start vaccinating children from as young as five against Covid-19.

Most schools in the country are due to reopen by the middle of February, the health ministry said in a statement. More than 75 per cent of Vietnam's 98 million people have received at least two vaccine shots and authorities aim to administer a booster shot to all of the adult population by the end of March.

Vietnam managed to contain the coronavirus for most of 2020 before the Delta variant drove up infections last year.

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