Coronavirus: Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City to test entire population of 13 million

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s most populous city, is preparing to test all of its 13 million residents for the coronavirus after a steep rise in community transmissions, state media said on Sunday.The southern metropolis is expecting to carry out a mass testing programme that will see 100,000 tests each day, city chairman Nguyen Thanh Phong said during an emergency meeting on Sunday, according to online newspaper VnExpress.The news follows an announcement made earlier on Sunday that Ho Chi Minh…