“I am happy,” said Tran Van Vu, who owns a store selling fruit, vegetables and meat and had planned to expand his business before the pandemic.
“During the lockdown our company was affected a lot… we didn’t have enough delivery men as they had to be tested every two days and it was costly for the company.”
Roads were busy for the first time in months after most businesses were given the go-ahead to reopen and vaccinated people permitted to move freely within the city.
Although authorities have kept a ban on travel to other provinces, thousands of families traveling by motorbike gathered at a checkpoint on the way out of the city, hoping to return to their hometowns.
Vietnam was once hailed as a model for virus containment, but the country struggled to stop the spread of a fourth wave of infection that began in April in northern industrial parks and quickly traveled south.
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