Reports from Vietnam say that around one in three of Vietnam’s textiles, clothing and sports footwear factories are closed because of an increase in covid-19 cases there.

Mid-August figures showed that Vietnam had registered almost 200,000 new cases of covid-19 in the previous 28 days. This is lower than the figures for many other countries, but represents 85% of all the cases that Vietnam has had since the start of the pandemic early last year and the country’s vaccination programme is rolling out only slowly.

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