Apropos of nothing, I decided to look at a Vietnamese news site, and learnt that the holiday season there is kinda dangerous sounding:
The combined number of deaths and fatality prognosis cases was 88, aMind you, I see that its population is nearly 90 million (much higher than I would have guessed), so I suppose you have to take that into account.
one percent drop, while the number of people under emergency care rose
113 percent against the previous year.
Over 17,000 people fell victim to traffic accidents nationwide in the
period, the newswire quoted the ministry as saying. Eleven percent of
the victims suffered brain injury, the ministry said.
Some 2,000 people were admitted to infirmaries in the country due to
physical confrontations, an 83 percent year on year decline.
Ten people died in the conflicts, six cases more than last year, according to the Ministry of Health.
It added that 2,000 cases of food poisoning were recorded during the three days, the peak of the Lunar New Year holiday.
The National Traffic Safety Committee said in a recent report that over
64 people died in traffic accidents that happened across Vietnam
between February 7 and 9.
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