Zero Deaths in Vietnam, the Prison Pandemic, and the Return of Rebekah Jones
A roundup of stories we’re reading about the coronavirus today
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2 min readJun 12, 2020
- Over 421,000 people worldwide have died from Covid-19, but none of those people died in Vietnam, according to the nation’s data. As Dave Lawler at Axios reports, the communist country may be the rare “winner” in this pandemic: Not only is its death count zero (and there’s no evidence of a cover-up), but its government predicts its economy will grow 5% this year — in the middle of a global recession…
