Metro Writers Blog

All those who lived through the Saigon lockdown, the outbreak that took Phi Nhung’s life, will never forget those terrible days. In late April 2021, after a year’s false sense of security while the rest of the world wrestled with Covid-19, Vietnam finally succumbed to the virus. Saigon’s relentless energies faded as its people started to lose their breath. Coils of barbed wire cordoned off city streets in an echo of fifty years past. Ten million people waited in their homes f