An American patient is discharged from hospital in Da Nang city on April 3. (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) - Bangladesh’s dhakatribune.com has published an article on Vietnam’sfight against the COVID-19 pandemic, saying the country could offer valuable lessonson how to curb the disease’s spread amid a poor healthcare system and low budgetfunds.
Vietnam has reported only more than 250 COVID-19 cases and no fatalities. More than half of those infected haverecovered.
During Tet - the lunar new year and the most important celebration in Vietnameseculture, held at the end of January this year - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phucattended a government meeting “declaring war” on the coronavirus, the article stated.
Rather than embarking on mass testing, Vietnam focused on quarantining infectedpeople and tracking down those they had been in contact with.
Apart from this aggressive tracing, other measures adopted include compulsory quarantine and the conscription of medical students and retired doctors and nurses.
And from very early on, anyone arriving in Vietnam from a high-risk area wasquarantined for 14 days. All schools and universities were closed at the beginningof February.
Vietnam’s success in containing COVID-19 depends in part on themobilisation of medical and military personnel, and surveillance, according to the article.
Security officials can be found on every street, every neighborhood, and everyvillage. The military is also deploying soldiers and material in the fight againstthe coronavirus, it said. About 800 people found sharing“fake news” on the virus have been fined.
The article also quoted Carl Thayer, a professor at the University of NewSouth Wales Canberra, as saying that Vietnam is a mobilisation society and the Vietnamese Government is good at responding to natural disasters./.
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