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Editor, Senior Moderator
Disaster Med Public Health Prep
. 2022 Feb 14;1-11.
doi: 10.1017/dmp.2022.33. Online ahead of print.
May the Vietnam response have reduced daily new cases of COVID-19 in the country?
Danh C Vu[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Trang H D Nguyen[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Thi L Ho[SUP] 3 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Abstract
Vietnam, a Southeast Asian country, has documented 1515 PCR-positive confirmed cases with 35 deaths a year after the first infection recorded in Ha Noi on January 23, 2020. Half of the infected patients are at the age of 21 - 40 years. While infections in many countries in the region continue to surge, Vietnam is seeing decreases in daily new cases. As a result of COVID-19 trajectory different from the other countries, as of April 23, 2020 Vietnam is no longer under lockdown and is slowly restarting its socioeconomic activities. This report aims to provide a summary of the COVID-19 situation and response to the pandemic in Vietnam.
Keywords: COVID-19; Vietnam; coronavirus; infectious disease; pandemic.
. 2022 Feb 14;1-11.
doi: 10.1017/dmp.2022.33. Online ahead of print.
May the Vietnam response have reduced daily new cases of COVID-19 in the country?
Danh C Vu[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Trang H D Nguyen[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Thi L Ho[SUP] 3 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 35152938
- DOI: 10.1017/dmp.2022.33
Abstract
Vietnam, a Southeast Asian country, has documented 1515 PCR-positive confirmed cases with 35 deaths a year after the first infection recorded in Ha Noi on January 23, 2020. Half of the infected patients are at the age of 21 - 40 years. While infections in many countries in the region continue to surge, Vietnam is seeing decreases in daily new cases. As a result of COVID-19 trajectory different from the other countries, as of April 23, 2020 Vietnam is no longer under lockdown and is slowly restarting its socioeconomic activities. This report aims to provide a summary of the COVID-19 situation and response to the pandemic in Vietnam.
Keywords: COVID-19; Vietnam; coronavirus; infectious disease; pandemic.