[283] Among the cases are 40 members of the mission, who had gathered in a small alley in G Vp District several times. In only two weeks, Cambodia had 4,832 new cases, mainly in the community. Vietnam capital Hanoi to ease coronavirus curbs this week Timeline of UK government coronavirus lockdowns and restrictions That was from the test result of nearly 2,500 samples taken in quarantine areas in the province. [137], On 22 July, a 57-year-old man went to Da Nang C Hospital coughing and feeling tired. Hanoi has escaped the brunt of a fierce wave of coronavirus infections in Vietnam since late April, recording less than 50 of the more than 17,000 COVID-19 deaths nationwide, and just 4,414. There are significant differences in the legislation and the reporting between the countries of the UK: England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales. [83] Mother (49-year-old, #11) and younger sister (16-year-old, #12) of the case No. This patient had previously been in Daegu for several days in February and, prior to testing positive, had already been quarantined along with all passengers on the same flight from South Korea since he re-entered Vietnam. [139], On the same day, the Vietnamese Acting Minister of Health Nguyn Thanh Long ordered the city authorities to suspend all international flights at Da Nang International Airport. The disease prevention in the locality is difficult because the province has many industrial parks, hostels with a large number of workers from all over the country come here every day. Most of those cases related to patient #2899, who returned from Japan (also isolated at Nng before) but did not self quarantine at home. 1.1.2 March 2020-2021: sporadic outbreaks and strict measures Along with that, Vietnam started its mass COVID-19 vaccination campaign on the next day.[35][36]. Of which, 42 clusters have not been controlled, including: 20 in the province, 10 directly connected with the outbreak in Ho Chi Minh City and 12 with unknown sources of infection (detected through rapid testing in medical facilities). Only confirmed 30 cases. The hotel where he and his family had stayed has been temporarily locked down while authorities also disinfected the nearby restaurant and car in which they traveled. [11] On the afternoon of 20 March, the Ministry of Health announced 2 new COVID-19 patients, the 86th and 87th, who were two female nurses at Bch Mai Hospital with no history of contact with any COVID-19 patients. 17. Long Weekend Becomes 9 Week Lockdown For AP Vietnam Reporter - NPR.org Border forces have increased their number of troops and continuously patrolled to prevent illegal border entrants. On 4 January, after completed isolation, his samples were taken for a second test, and without waiting for results, this person was released from the facility. [151][152] On the same day, the first two deaths due to COVID-19 occurred in Vietnam: patient 428 and 437, two elderly 70 and 61 years old man respectively, who appeared to have contracted the virus in Da Nang. On 14 June, the disease had spread to hospitals, industrial parks, and residential neighborhoods, with approximately a thousand cases reported; the city therefore had to maintain social distancing for another two weeks. [103] Later this day, 9 more cases was announced, with 4 cases in Qung Ninh, 2 cases in Lo Cai, 2 cases in Nng and 1 case in Tha Thin Hu. [237], At the COVID-19 Steering Committee meeting, Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Nguyn Thnh Phong said the city would not organize fireworks on Reunification Day. [239] Results of genetic sequencing at the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology in Hanoi showed that four cases of COVID-19 in the group of Indian experts were from the Delta variant. Tens of thousands of workers in motels such as My in 1, My in 2, and My in 3 in Nnh town, Vit Yn district, have been quarantined due to some worker live there infected with COVID-19. [266], After nearly two months in lockdown, the situation in Bc Giang continued to improve gradually with no new clusters being reported. At the time of the outbreak, the rate of adults receiving one dose of vaccine was over 85% [144], On 26 July, Da Nang confirmed three more cases in community. One person in close contact with these people also gave a positive result in Ho Chi Minh City. Vietnam's pandemic lockdown has been so long I've lost my sense of time. He said that the disease was spreading quickly to many provinces because Ho Chi Minh City is the primary economic centre of the country. 5 was tested positive, making the number of cases in Vietnam 16. 7 dch COVID-19 ti Vit Nam ang nhng u? During the end of June, on average around 194 cases were reported per day and mostly among the Quang Chu and Vn Trung Industrial Park workers who are in lockdown areas or have been in quarantine. Binh Duong has a population of 2.5 million and is one of the largest industrial centers in the Southern Region with nearly 50,000 businesses and more than 1.2 million employees. This was the first case related to military personnel in the country. The deputy director of the Da Nang Department of Health said the patient was being treated at the Da Nang Hospital Department of Tropical Medicine. [116][117][118] Subsequently, a new-found case connected with the man were also discovered the following days. Peru has more than doubled its official death toll from the Covid-19 pandemic following a government review of the. [200], On 15 February, Hanoi CDC recorded one case was a deceased 53-year-old Japanese expert, his body was found inside Somerset West Point hotel room. The lockdown order includes the Mekong Delta and Ho Chi Minh City metropolis, the country's financial and economic hub with over 35 million people nearly a third of Vietnam's population. The quarantine of Son Loi village was scheduled to last 14 days. [186], On 2 January, Vietnam reported a detection of the UK variant of SARS-CoV-2 in a 45-year-old female, a resident of Tra Vinh province who returned from the United Kingdom on 22 December on flight VN50. In January 2022, the country recorded more than 2 million cases and over 36,000 deaths, accounting for 1.7% of the total number of cases. With this large number of samples, Vietnam's Minister of Health Nguyn Thanh Long has directed the medical staff to switch from pooled testing using RT-PCR to rapid testing to stamp out the epidemic faster. So he signed an end of quarantine term with two negatives for all 89 people, instead of 84 people. Epidemiological investigation shows that one F0 can infect eight other people in three days, leading to a rapid increase in the number of cases. Published 13 Oct 2021 Vietnam Coronavirus Ho Chi Minh City and the wider south in Vietnam finished its 24-hour-a-day Covid-19 lockdown of three months last week, allowing people to venture out to buy food rather than wait for soldiers to coordinate deliveries to their homes. Vietnam: Coronavirus Pandemic Country Profile - Our World in Data The number of COVID-19 cases connected with this outbreak was 238, including: 90 cases at the hospital and 148 people in community.[250][251][252]. From 3 September 2020 to 15 May 2021, the country recorded no new COVID-19 related deaths. [135][136], By the end of July, Vietnam had gone more than three months without new COVID-19 cases from local transmission. He had returned to Vietnam from Japan via Nng International Airport on 7 April. [168], As of 28 October, Vietnam has not found any new cases of community transmission. She has worked as a receptionist and had direct contact with the Chinese father and son (cases #12). [88], The 15th case was identified on 11 February, a 3-month-old grandchild of case No. March 20202021: sporadic outbreaks and strict measures, May 2021present: Severe outbreak and 'endemic' stage, Five main sources of infection in fourth wave in Vietnam, Clusters with unknown source of infection, Ngy 1/11: C 449 ca COVID-19 mi, 1 bnh nhn Qung Ninh t vong, Delta variant threatens to overload Vietnam's healthcare system: experts, "Hai ngi vim phi V Hn cch ly ti Bnh vin Ch Ry", "Importation and Human-to-Human Transmission of a Novel Coronavirus in Vietnam", "Hai ca dng tnh nCoV ang iu tr ti BV Ch Ry", "Ti sao mt bnh nhn Vnh Phc ly virus corona 6 ngi? Most of the cases from the cluster that were sequenced have been confirmed to have the B.1.1.7 variant. After one week, the cluster number of cases in here increased to 40. [249] Another notable feature of this wave is that because the disease had spread to many provinces in Vietnam, there were outbreaks in the same locality at the same time but from few another sources of infection, making difficult to trace and cut the chain of infection. [228] A few hours later, the Ministry of Health issued an emergency announcement after detected two people positive with COVID-19 flew from Phu Quoc International Airport to Hanoi. [28][29], The third wave of infection began on 28 January 2021, when Vietnam recorded an additional 84 community transmission cases within a single day in Hi Dng and Qung Ninh provinces. According to WHO, to prepare for the worsening situation, the country has built more than 30 field hospitals with a scale of 1,500 ICU beds and 30,000 non-ICU beds. All had close contact with a 28-year-old man from H Nam Province (Patient #2899) who tested positive after finishing 14 days of mandatory quarantine. [225][226] People in other districts will be tested from 15 to 19 March. Kien Giang province has 12 districts and three cities that share a border with Cambodia, a total length of 56km, a coastline of more than 200km long with over 63,000 km2 of sea surface, thousands of fishing boats of the two countries operating every day. The province's health sector has no experience in epidemic prevention while the number of cases in the community is in large numbers. ", "Trong "tm dch" Sn Li trc gi G d b lnh phong ta, cch ly", Vic phn tuyn v phc iu tr COVID- 19 ca Vit Nam ph hp, hiu qu, Bc u xc nh ngun ly nhim chnh BV Bch Mai, "C bn kim sot c dch COVID-19 ti Bnh vin Bch Mai", "Bn trong thn H Li nhng ngy phong ta", Quc t nh gi Vit Nam phng chng i dch COVID-19 hiu qu, "Ngi nghi nhim Nng c ghi nhn l 'bnh nhn 416', "T 0h ngy 28/7, Thnh ph Nng bt u thc hin gin cch x hi trong vng 15 ngy", "TP.HCM, H Ni, k Lk ghi nhn 4 ca mc COVID-19, Vit Nam c 450 ca", "Bnh nhn Covid-19 th 2 ti Vit Nam t vong do sc nhim trng trn nn bnh l nng", "Bnh nhn COVID-19 th ba t vong ti Vit Nam", "Bn tin dch COVID-19 trong 24h: Cc dch trong nc c bn c kim sot, tip tc nng cao nng lc xt nghim SARS-CoV-2", "How Vietnam crushed its second coronavirus wave", "Nam gio vin ting Anh TP.HCM ly COVID-19 t ngi cch ly, B Y t hp khn", "NNG: Thanh nin TP.HCM dng tnh COVID-19, nhp cnh 'chui' cng bnh nhn 1440", "C gi Hi Dng Nht nhim bin th nCoV Anh", "Stay-at-home orders in Vietnam Covid-19 hotspot", "H Ni ng ca qun n ng ph, c ph t 0h ngy 16/2", "Vietnam records 40 new coronavirus cases as Hi Dng outbreak still hard to control", "L l, ch quan, nhiu on ng ngi vn i chc Tt TP Hi Dng", "Vietnam begins COVID-19 vaccinations after successful virus containment", "Vietnam defied the experts and sealed its border to keep Covid-19 out. Over 3 hundred thousand workers in industrial parks and manufacturing areas were sampled. For the first 16 cases of the disease, the medical staff had to treat different types of patients, including infants, the elderly and people with underlying conditions. While patient 3055 was being treated, on 26 April, a group of 18 people from Mao Dien commune came to visit the patient at the hospital. The patient is being treated at Tra Vinh Tuberculosis and Lung Disease Hospital with fever and sore throat. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. HANOI, July 31 (Reuters) - Vietnam will from Monday extend strict curbs on movement in its business hub Ho Chi Minh City and another 18 cities and provinces throughout its south for another two. logarithmic. [12] In March and April 2020, the number of cases increased rapidly due to the large number of people coming from European countries and the appearance of clusters such as Bch Mai Hospital, Ha Loi Commune in Hanoi and Buddha Bar in Ho Chi Minh City. [173], On 30 November, the Ho Chi Minh City Center for Disease Control (HCDC) announced one case tested positive for COVID-19, a 63-year-old female in Hc Mn District (mother of patient 1342), without confirming the case. Vietnam had seemingly conquered Covid. Then Delta spread [19] Vietnam began loosening restrictions in May, including resuming domestic travel across the country. This is the ninth I've been stuck in Vung Tau, a seaside resort more than 1,500 kilometers (900 miles) from my home in Hanoi. The epicenter was in Hai Duong, this local outbreak accounting for nearly 80% of the total number of cases. The city injected 836 thousand doses of vaccine transferred by the Ministry of Health in just five days (1924 June). The epicenter in the fourth wave, first case was detected in a Christian mission, then from mission members spread throughout the city and southern provinces of Vietnam. Another cause for the rapid spread of the disease in industrial zones, according to the leaders of Bc Giang province, is the Provincial Management Board of Industrial Parks and the Department of Health was too slow when detect and isolate infected workers at the beginning, especially at the outbreak in Vn Trung industrial park. The first cases discovered in Ho Chi Minh City were two people from Wuhan (China), the disease then spread in 13 other localities. After seven days of extensive testing, the health sector recorded an additional 388 positive cases residing in two alleys 328, 330 and other nearby apartments. [52], On 29 August, Prime Minister Phm Minh Chnh stated that Vietnam might have to live with the virus and could not rely on indefinite closures and quarantines. [223], From 11 March 2020, Hanoi will conduct mass community testing to detect COVID-19 cases in the community early, particularly in high-risk areas like restaurants, coach stations, factories or areas where many foreigners reside. [58] However, due to the country's widespread vaccination coverage, deaths remained low in proportion to the number of confirmed cases. Qu V cluster recorded 127 cases, source of transmission was identified mainly from Qu V Industrial Park. [37][38] As the epidemic has spread to many provinces in Vietnam, many outbreaks are occurring in many localities at the same time, making it "nearly impossible" to trace and cut the chain of infection. [204][205], By 25 March 2021, Vietnam had 25 COVID-19 clusters related to the outbreaks, these are most notable five:[206][207], Since the third wave began, Vietnam recorded 910 cases in community in 13 cities and provinces. More than 143,000 workers have returned to Ho Chi Minh City, ng Nai to work. [242][243], In May 2021, many small outbreaks, most of which unrelated to each other, were discovered in many localities. At the meeting, military officials said that the death rate in the field hospital was 2.56%, 94.2% in the ICU center, and 3.42% with home treatment. Clusters have been found in industrial parks in Bac Giang province and then in at least ten major hospitals in the country. The 23-year-old man had stayed with patient 1440 in Myanmar before they crossed the Vietnamese border with other seven people. [297] After 13 days of extensive testing for more than 1.2 million people, the results detected 12,284 people with COVID-19 (rate of positive tests is 1%). [236] According to the city Department of Health, there are currently 20 public hospitals and 24 non-public hospitals. [308][309][310], On 11 October, the Ministry of Health changed the criteria for assessing the level of epidemic, replacing the directives that were used before. V sao B Y t cng b ca t vong, ca nhim chm hn a phng? "V sao bnh nhn Covid-19 Bc Giang tng nhanh? . "TP H Ch Minh phong ta thm 6 khu vc, tm dng cc hot ng khng cn thit, dng taxi, gii tn ch t pht", Dch TP HCM ly 4 chu k, xm nhp nhiu cng ty, khu cng nghip, S ca Covid-19 lin quan hi truyn gio ln hn 200, lan 6 tnh thnh, Nh my Khu cng ngh cao tng thm 119 ca nghi nhim, "5 nhnh ly nhim lin quan nhm truyn gio c kim sot", "Thm 31 nhn vin Bnh vin Bnh Nhit i TP HCM nghi Covid-19", "An observational study of breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant infections among vaccinated healthcare workers in Vietnam", "Mc Covid-19 sau tim vaccine: ti lng virus thp, hi phc nhanh", Qun 7 v huyn C Chi, TP H Ch Minh cng b kim sot c dch COVID-19, Ca nhim Covid-19 tng vt 5 tnh pha Nam. [60] An article in Bloomberg noted that Vietnam has a high level of vaccination and has seen a dramatic drop in COVID-19 related deaths. [218] On Lunar New Year's Eve 12 February, all provinces and cities stopped firing fireworks and New Year festivals to limit crowds (except for Hanoi still had one fireworks display spot at Thng Nht Park, instead of 30 as planned). From the end of April 2021, Vietnam experienced "a fast-spreading outbreak" of more than 350,000 cases. Vietnam: Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City: HCMC), Nhan Tran & Phu My (since [292] Notably, when Ho Chi Minh City Hospital for Tropical Diseases tested RT-PCR for 887 employees on 13 June, it recorded 53 positive cases with COVID-19. [61] However, in August, the Ministry of Health issued a recommendation to not declare COVID-19 endemic, and to instead shift the country's response from "prevention" to "stable management". Thus, except for the infection from the activities of the mission, the risk of infection in workplaces is quite high, especially in a closed environment like an office building. According to the WHO, to prepare for a worse situation, the country had built 30 more field hospitals with a scale of 1,500 ICU beds and 30,000 non-ICU beds. The second patient was a 31-year-old staff at the Van Don International Airport in Qung Ninh, this airport has served many repatriation flights amid the pandemic. At the beginning of the outbreak, most of the cases were linked with hospitals cluster and related to Nng (47 cases), but in late May the authorities discovered a cluster with unknown source of infection at T&T company and Park 11 Times City apartment complex. [20][21] On 28 July, the Da Nang authorities immediately locked down the city for 15 days. [306], Sa c General Hospital cluster: The total number of cases in the province is 305 and 3 deaths. Vietnam expands lockdown measures in northern provinces as daily Covid At sea there is also a patrol force consisting of nine ships and two boats of the Border Guard, Fisheries Surveillance, and Coast Guard.

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