Vietnam can be said to have put the coronavirus pandemic under control. However, the risks of its return are still huge as the number of Covid-19 cases has kept rising everyday around the world. Last week, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc requested the authorities at all levels to continue staying vigilant to keep a second wave of the coronavirus in Vietnam at bay.

In this context, wearing face mask is advisable to prevent the spread of Covid-19. Currently, many Vietnamese garment enterprises are producing fabric face masks in great numbers. In the following photo essay, we visited face mask production lines at Viet Thang Jean, a garment firm, in HCMC’s Dist. 9.

By Tran Linh