Vietnam is battling major Covid-19 outbreaks throughout the country as the Delta variant unleashes its havoc on a country that up until a few months ago  had been mostly spared from the pandemic. Here is Access Asia’s Monday update in collaboration with Vietnam Weekly, a subscription-based publication covering current affairs in Vietnam. The latest data Last Thursday night, this outbreak had accounted for 185,004 cases of community transmission, a figure that is now 206,439 (135,462 of which are active). In a concerning development yesterday set a new single-day case record, 9,684. Vietnam had gone over a week without breaking any records. […]