Ho Chi Minh City: the Covid-19 diaries Part 1
W ell....l ittle did this Jaded Empress ever imagine that when she wrote her first post about her return to her beloved Ho Chi Minh City in 2018 (as chronicled here ) that two years later she would be entangled-up in and greatly affected by the global pandemic that is $%#@*&% Covid-19. Actually, being in Vietnam probably ended-up a pretty good move in some ways, as, throughout 2020 and well into 2021 during the coronavirus pandemic, this nation of 90 million people ranked amongst the world's top to contain the coronavirus, with some of the lowest number of confirmed cases and related deaths (even more amazing as Vietnam's neighbour is China, where we all know, Covid-19 originated from). Not that many folk were/ are aware of all this, as Vietnam never got the media coverage, nay, recognition, it deserved like other Asian nations, such as South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore, etc. T he Vietnamese government's response to this catastrophic global s