The special exhibition themed "Silence" is held at a cafe on Nguyen Van Troi Street. 

The coffee shop displays more than 1,500 documents, including directives on epidemic prevention and control, travel papers, vouchers for purchase food during the quarantine period, and photos, books, newspapers and publications reporting about the work of epidemic prevention and control.

More than 2,000 images with the theme of Covid-19 prevention, and hundreds of artifacts from 13 wards in Phu Nhuan district are displayed at the shop. 

Chairman of the Phu Nhuan District People’s Committee Nguyen Dong Tung said that the exhibition gave a review of the implementation of the pandemic prevention and control and the hardest days during the fourth wave of Covid-19 in 2021, and paid a tribute to the frontline forces in the struggle to control the outbreak.

The cafe owner, Huynh Minh Hiep, said that he had the idea of collecting the items and photos about the Covid-19 pandemic for an exhibition when participating in community anti-Covid activities in HCM City last year.

"I wanted to give myself and other people a chance to look back at the hard days we lived through during the pandemic," he said. "There are so many memorable stories behind these photos and items," Hiep said.

Hiep said that he had been recognized by the Vietnam Record Organization as the person who owns the most documents and artifacts related to the Covid-19 epidemic in Vietnam.

The exhibition will last on June 4.

Phu Thanh