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Vietnam schoolgirl creates art from the chaos of COVID-19

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HANOI: Stuck at home with school suspended, Nguyen Doi Chung Anh made the most of a lockdown in Vietnam by using art to demonstrate tragedy, resilience and chaos in the world's battle against COVID-19.

The work of 10-year-old Chung Anh shows how events unfolded globally, depicting the devastation with drawings of the coronavirus attacking landmarks like the Eiffel Tower, the Statue of Liberty, Big Ben and the Leaning Tower of Pisa as it spread through Europe, the United States and beyond.

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Nguyen Doi Chung Anh paints at her home in Hanoi, Vietnam, Jun 10, 2020. (Photo: Reuters/Kham)

Nguyen Doi Chung Anh works on a painting about COVID-19 at her home in Hanoi, Vietnam, Jun 10, 2020. (Photo: Reuters/Kham)

Her pictures also aim to highlight Vietnam's success in containing the virus after a wave of imported infections, one with a virus-hit passenger plane in the arms of two soldiers and another showing the same flight intercepted by medical workers who spray disinfectant from fighter jets.

They refer to the fated flight VN54 which brought in a fresh batch of infected people after Vietnam had declared itself virus-free for three weeks. The country has reported 332 cases and no deaths.

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Nguyen Doi Chung Anh sits next to her paintings about COVID-19 at her home in Hanoi, Vietnam, Jun 10, 2020. (Photo: Reuters/Kham)

Her pictures also aim to highlight Vietnam's success in containing the virus after a wave of imported infections. (Photo: Reuters/Kham)

Chung Anh drew herself in one picture about her safety to show appreciation for frontliners, who appear in most of her 11 drawings fighting the virus with shields or blasting it with disinfectant.

"I drew this with hope that they can keep their spirits high to prevent an outbreak," she said. "This girl is me, here I am drawing and these things are my imagination."