Vietnam has undergone more than one month with no cases of coronavirus community transmission at a time when the world’s infections have surpassed the 30-million mark.
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The country’s caseload stays at 1,096, including 93% recovered, while the death toll remains at 35 for several weeks.
As many as 63% of the country’s tally are local infections, including the majority from the second wave that resurfaced in late July.
As of October 4, more than 16,400 people are under quarantine, including returning Vietnamese nationals, foreign experts and investors who enter Vietnam under legal entry programs and recently first international commercial flights.
Big cities like Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City have gone seven weeks and nine weeks without locally-transmitted infections, respectively.
The situation has enabled Vietnam to continue promoting activities for the economic recovery as part of the government’s dual targets which include containing the virus and developing the economy.
For that reason, Acting Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long emphasized that the consistent method against the pandemic is prevention, tracing, quarantining, lockdown, and stamping out to mitigate impacts on the socio-economic development and social security.
Imported cases remain the biggest challenge to Vietnam’s coronavirus battle.
Vietnam was a clear success story of the Covid-19 pandemic by May with a low infection rate. It has contained the second wave of the outbreaks that mysteriously resurfaced after 99 days of no local infections.
