Vietnamese fleeing virus found in refrigerated truck: Media
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Fifteen people including a seven-year-old boy have beenfoundinside arefrigeratedtruckin Vietnam after they tried to escape areas of the south badly hit by Covid-19, statemediasaid Monday.
Vietnam has been battling a devastating fourth wave of thevirussince April and tens of millions of people are under stay-at-home orders, with domestic travel largely forbidden.
On Sunday police in Binh Thuan province discovered the group of 15 inside a vehicle that had aroused suspicion as it tried to pass aviruscheckpoint on its way north, Ho Chi Minh City's Phap Luat online newspaper said.
"Police were so surprised to see 15 people at the back of thetruck... Some of them were sweating and showed symptoms of breath shortness," the report said, adding the passengers were carrying negative Covid test certificates.
A passenger said they had asked the driver to turn off thetruck's refrigeration system as it had been too cold.
"We knew it is a huge risk and very dangerous to stay in a closed frozentruck, but we faced a higher risk if we were infected with thevirus," the report quoted a man travelling with his seven-year-old son as saying.
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According to the report, the group travelled dozens of kilometres in the sealedtruckfrom southern Dong Nai province, an industrial area that has recorded more than 35,000 Covid-19 cases and 320 deaths.
The province has been in total lockdown since early July and makeshift hospitals have been set up to treat tens of thousands of infected patients.
The people in thetruckwere reportedly trying to reach their homes in central Vietnam.
Vietnam has suspended all public road and air transport links from the south, which has been hit the hardest by the country's most severe wave of the pandemic so far.
The country has reported more than 610,000viruscases, with more than 11,400 deaths.
In October 2019, 31 men and eight women from Vietnam, werefounddead in arefrigeratedtrucknear London, highlighting the enormous risks of illegal migration to Europe and sparking an international outcry.