Factory workers endured grueling conditions, living and sleeping in the same factories in which they worked long hours, to comply with strict government rules aiming to minimise the spread of Covid.
“Vietnam probably does a third of all apparel production [for the US],” said Jana Gold, a Senior Director with Alvarez & Marsal Consumer and Retail Group in Washington. “Of all countries to get hit with Covid, it really impacted the industry,” she said.