Hanoi urbanites adapt to epidemic battle

“Mom, please let me wash my hands. I just pressed the elevator button,” a four-year-old girl told her mother. Watching her daughter sanitize her hands with alcoholic gel, Nguyen Thi Ha, 32, a resident of Nam Tu Liem District, is glad to have adopted strict hygiene procedures. “Without the epidemic, I would probably have never learned how to wash my hands properly,” the young mother said, a queue of nodding neighbors exiting the elevator behind her. Residing in the same building as Ha, Nguyen Chi Minh’s family is equipped with bottles of 70-degree alcohol, used to disinfect their hands as recommended by health authorities. Now, he cleans his entire house, including appliances daily instead of bi-weekly. Minh has grown accustomed to surfing his smartphone for updates on the virus and reads recommendations posted by the health ministry each morning after waking. “Now, the main top during family meals involves the coronavirus,” he said. He and his wife decided to keep their child at home even before schools closed down. Now, a grandmother from Ninh Binh, around two hours from Hanoi, helps take care of them. After five years of working for a television equipment provider, this was the first time his… Read full this story

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