Hotels and office buildings across the central Vietnam tourist hotspot of Da Nang showed their support for the local semi-lockdown via heart-melting light displays. 

Lit hotel rooms form a heart shape to lift spirits across Da Nang as it entered a 14-day semi-lockdown on July 28 to contain a fresh Covid-19 outbreak.

 The social distancing requires people to stay at home and maintain a distance of at least two meters from each other if they have to come out. It also prohibits public gatherings of more than two people, bans festivals, religious ceremonies and sporting events, and closes "non-essential" businesses like beauty salons, massage parlors, cinemas, and bars.

Many hotels along Han River and near the beach display messages of encouragement on the evening of July 29, 2020.

Muong Thanh hotels display the message "I love Da Nang" on July 29, 2020.

"Love and solidarity will help us win the pandemic," a hotel representative said.

A quiete street is lit up with a message of hope.

Many buildings helped spread the love, from Han River, Dragon Bridge, to Thuan Phuoc Bridge, etc.

A hotel sends out a message of hope on the evening of July 29, 2020.

Local residents take photos of the hearty messages.

Da Nang is now Vietnam’s Covid-19 hotspot, having recorded the country’s first case of local transmission in 100 days last Saturday. Since then the city has identified 33 more cases. Vietnam has had 459 Covid-19 cases, 90 of them active.

Photos by Khoi Tran