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Quarantined In Vietnam: Scenes From Inside A Center For Returning Citizens

The photographer, a photojournalism student at Syracuse University, documents her enforced quarantine after abruptly returning from her study abroad.
New arrivals take their belongings to their rooms in a coronavirus quarantine center at a small college dorm on the outskirts of Hanoi, Vietnam.

Usually, when I arrive home in Hanoi, I'm out the same day riding my scooter around the treacherous traffic of the Vietnamese capital, past the little cafes and food vendors on the sidewalk. The thrill of making it, sometimes narrowly, through a chaotic sea of pedestrians, scooters and cars is oddly liberating.

But this time was different. I had managed toto a quarantine center on the other side of the city.

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