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news Vietnam may not want China’s Covid-19 vaccines, but how long can it stay immune to them? Dien Nguyen An Luong © EPA-EFE People ride motorbikes past a poster featuring information on coming legislative elections in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Wednesday. Photo: EPA When it comes to Beijing s vaccine diplomacy campaign, received to much fanfare across most of Southeast Asia, Hanoi has stood out as an outlier. But the question of how long Vietnam can afford to remain immune to Chinese shots has never been more vexing for the authorities. Surging Covid-19 case numbers, dismal vaccination rates, and new waves of deadlier or more transmissible variants have made the need for shots in arms all the more dire in a country where no local infections had been reported for a month before the recent sudden rise in cases. Since late April, Vietnam has logged more than 1,600 confirmed cases, including two deaths, from different clusters that have spread to 28 cities and provin

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