Vietnam's capital ramps up testing after extending Covid-19 curbs,


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HANOI (REUTERS) - Vietnam's capital, Hanoi, extended Covid-19 restrictions on Monday (Sept 6) for a further two weeks, as the authorities launched a plan to conduct tests on the city's eight million people to try to curb a climb in infections that started in late April. The South-east Asian country dealt successfully with the virus for much of the pandemic, but the virulent Delta variant has proved more challenging in recent months. Covid-19 has infected more than 536,000 people in Vietnam and killed 13,385, the vast majority in the past few months. Hanoi, which has ordered people to stay home...