After being closed for nearly a month, Vietnam's once bustling stalls, shops and restaurants are open once again. Some of them at least. Others may never recover from the financial shock of being forced to shut up shop as the country grappled with coronavirus. And those that have survived now face a slow and painful return to normality while maintaining social distancing in a nation that appears to have had a narrow escape from the worst ravages of Covid-19. Remarkably, for a country that shares a 870-mile porous border with China and is far less wealthy than other Asian nations such as South Korea and Taiwan, Vietnam has suffered no deaths from the pandemic. As a result, it felt able last week to start lifting the strict social distancing measures and restrictions on movement. L Concepts, which operates seven restaurants and cafes in Ho Chi Minh City, became one of several businesses to take advantage of the easing of Vietnam’s lock down when it reopened four outlets on April 24.
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