Vietnam: Court convicts flight attendant for ‘spreading’ COVID
By DW
01 April 2021 |
8:36 am
Vietnamese police said that by breaking quarantine rules, the man affected at least 2,000 people who were either put into quarantine or asked to isolate at home.
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