HANOI: Vietnam is evacuating 80,000 people, mostly local tourists, from the central city of Danang after three residents tested positive for the coronavirus at the weekend, the government said on Monday.
The evacuation will take at least four days with domestic airlines operating approximately 100 flights daily from Danang to 11 Vietnamese cities, the government said in a statement.
The Southeast Asian country was back on high alert after the government on Saturday confirmed its first community infections since April, and another three cases on Sunday, all in the tourism hot spot of Danang.
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Vietnam to evacuate 80,000 people from Danang after virus outbreak
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Vietnam to evacuate 80,000 people from Danang after virus outbreak
- The evacuation will take at least four days
Trump calls De Niro ‘sick, demented’ after actor’s criticism
- The ‘Taxi Driver’ and ‘The Godfather’ star is a vocal critic of US president
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Wednesday called screen legend Robert De Niro “sick and demented” after the actor urged Americans to “resist” his administration.
The “Taxi Driver” and “The Godfather” star is a vocal critic of Trump, and used his lifetime achievement award speech at the Cannes Film Festival last year to slam the “philistine” president.
“Trump Deranged Robert De Niro, another sick and demented person with, I believe, an extremely Low IQ, who has absolutely no idea what he is doing or saying — some of which is seriously CRIMINAL!” Trump wrote in a lengthy post on his Truth Social platform.
His remarks came after De Niro criticized the president in a podcast aired Monday, saying: “Everybody has to stick together to get them out and get back on track.”
“The story is our country, and Trump is destroying it, and who knows what his reasons are, but it’s sick,” the 82-year-old actor told “The Best People with Nicolle Wallace” podcast.
“People have to resist, resist, resist, resist, resist. That’s the only way.”
The “Taxi Driver” and “The Godfather” star is a vocal critic of Trump, and used his lifetime achievement award speech at the Cannes Film Festival last year to slam the “philistine” president.
“Trump Deranged Robert De Niro, another sick and demented person with, I believe, an extremely Low IQ, who has absolutely no idea what he is doing or saying — some of which is seriously CRIMINAL!” Trump wrote in a lengthy post on his Truth Social platform.
His remarks came after De Niro criticized the president in a podcast aired Monday, saying: “Everybody has to stick together to get them out and get back on track.”
“The story is our country, and Trump is destroying it, and who knows what his reasons are, but it’s sick,” the 82-year-old actor told “The Best People with Nicolle Wallace” podcast.
“People have to resist, resist, resist, resist, resist. That’s the only way.”
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