Mekong Delta Province maintains factory restrictions over ‘high risks’: officials

Inside the factory of rice cracker producer Want Want Vietnam in Tien Giang Province. Photo courtesy of Want Want Vietnam.

Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang is still imposing the stay-at-work model because of high Covid-outbreak risks driven by low vaccination, an official said.

With only around 45 percent of workers vaccinated, the province cannot risk spreading infection with many returning from other provinces, said Nguyen Nhat Truong, head of Tien Giang Industrial Hub Management Committee, at a press briefing Thursday.

He was responding to a recent letter from 19 factories demanding the stay-at-work and one-route-two-destinations models be removed so they could resume normal operation.

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