{"id":83221,"date":"2021-09-07T17:10:40","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T21:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=83221"},"modified":"2021-09-07T17:10:40","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T21:10:40","slug":"vietnam-court-sentences-man-to-5-years-in-jail-for-spreading-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=83221","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam court sentences man to 5 years in jail for spreading COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Erin Doherty<br \/>\nAXIOS<\/p>\n<div class=\"cbbc7v-0 iNrCiz col-1-13 sm:col-3-11\">\n<div class=\"dm9ls1-0 bIqTEE\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" src=\"https:\/\/images.axios.com\/kkwwy1-Z0ybpGBLr4bGvDwY_qjw=\/0x300:4500x2831\/1920x1080\/2021\/09\/07\/1631024990704.jpg\" alt=\"Residents wait to provide swab samples for Covid-19 testing along a street in Hanoi on August 18, 2021,\" data-testid=\"amp-tag\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Residents wait to provide swab samples for Covid-19 testing along a street in Hanoi on August 18, 2021 amid a two-week lockdown. Photo: Nhac Nguyen\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-1-13 sm:col-3-11 \">\n<div class=\"b0w77w-0 jhsJV mt-12 mb-20 sm:mt-20 gtm-story-text p\">\n<p>A Vietnamese man on Monday was jailed for five years for breaking the country&#8217;s COVID-19 quarantine rules and spreading the virus, Reuters\u00a0<a class=\"gtm-content-click\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/vietnamese-man-jailed-5-years-spreading-coronavirus-2021-09-06\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-vars-link-text=\"reports\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/vietnamese-man-jailed-5-years-spreading-coronavirus-2021-09-06\/\" data-vars-event-category=\"story\" data-vars-sub-category=\"story\" data-vars-item=\"in_content_link\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Driving the news:\u00a0<\/strong>Le Van Tri, 28, who was convicted of &#8220;spreading dangerous infectious diseases,&#8221; breached the 21-day quarantine regulations after traveling back to Ca Mau from Ho Chi Minh City, the state-run Vietnam News Agency reported, per Reuters.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Tri infected eight people, one of whom died due to the virus after one month of treatment,&#8221; state media reported.<\/li>\n<li>Vietnam has sentenced two other people to 18-month and two-year suspended jail terms on the same charges, Reuters reports.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The big picture:\u00a0<\/strong>Vietnam had maintained relatively low COVID case numbers due to mass testing, aggressive contact tracing and strict quarantine rules early in the pandemic, per Reuters.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The country is battling recent surges of the virus, however, and the government has\u00a0<a class=\"gtm-content-click\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/lockdown-hanoi-coronavirus-surge-vietnam-f6f7a38d-ba82-4edf-94e5-8b0e4142e789.html\" target=\"_self\" data-vars-link-text=\"imposed\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/lockdown-hanoi-coronavirus-surge-vietnam-f6f7a38d-ba82-4edf-94e5-8b0e4142e789.html\" data-vars-event-category=\"story\" data-vars-sub-category=\"story\" data-vars-item=\"in_content_link\" rel=\"noopener\">imposed<\/a>\u00a0strict lockdowns.<\/li>\n<li>A worsening COVID outbreak in Vietnam has infected more than 536,000 people and killed 13,385 \u2014 the majority of cases happening in the past few months, per Reuters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Go deeper:<\/strong>\u00a0<a class=\"gtm-content-click\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/lockdown-hanoi-coronavirus-surge-vietnam-f6f7a38d-ba82-4edf-94e5-8b0e4142e789.html\" target=\"_self\" data-vars-link-text=\"Lockdown issued in Hanoi\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/lockdown-hanoi-coronavirus-surge-vietnam-f6f7a38d-ba82-4edf-94e5-8b0e4142e789.html\" data-vars-event-category=\"story\" data-vars-sub-category=\"story\" data-vars-item=\"in_content_link\" rel=\"noopener\">Lockdown issued in Hanoi<\/a>\u00a0due to COVID-19 surge in Vietnam<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/vietnam-sentences-man-five-years-jail-covid19-84c7c28f-4aa8-47e6-957a-b9b25d4188fc.html\">https:\/\/www.axios.com\/vietnam-sentences-man-five-years-jail-covid19-84c7c28f-4aa8-47e6-957a-b9b25d4188fc.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}