Fifteen people have been caught trying to flee a Covid lockdown in Vietnam by hiding in the back of a refrigerated lorry.
The group, which included a seven-year-old boy, was picked up when the vehicle travelled through a checkpoint in the southerly coastal province of Binh Thuan, local media reported.
Vietnam has been battling a devastating fourth wave of the virus since April and tens of millions of people are under stay-at-home orders, with domestic travel largely forbidden.
The people in the truck were 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 610,000 virus cases, with more than 11,400 deaths.
News Source: NDTV
