Vietnam's government says it is sending troops to Ho Chi Minh City to help deliver food and aid to households as it further tightens restrictions on people's movements amid a worsening surge of the coronavirus. reports AP.

The army personnel will be deployed to help with logistics as the city of 10 million people asks residents to stay put for two weeks starting from Monday, a report on the government website says.

The move comes as Vietnam, which weathered much of the pandemic with very few cases, recorded more than 10,000 new infections and 390 deaths on Friday. Ho Chi Minh City accounted for 3,500 of those infections.

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