Coronavirus Asia: outbreak shortens Vietnam’s Communist Party congress; Japan to extend state of emergency

Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party on Saturday said it would cut short a key five-yearly congress as it battled its biggest flare-up yet of Covid-19. The congress will end on Monday, a day earlier than previously scheduled, state media reported.The new outbreak, in a country of some 98 million people that has been highly successful in curbing the spread of the pandemic, began on Thursday and has spread to Hanoi, where the party is holding its five-yearly congress to pick a new leadership.Thanks…

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