Vietnam Television reported on April 29 that Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc declared Vietnam has basically put the COVID-19 outbreak under control, the first country ever to do so in the world, the newspaper said.
The statement was made about three months after the first positive case was confirmed (January 22), marking a turning point in the global fight against the pandemic, it said.
Vietnam is among the most successful countries in curbing the disease, it wrote. The country’s population is close to 100 million but it only reported 270 infections, including imported cases, and zero deaths.
The Vietnamese government’s determination to combat the COVID-19 has early earned strong trust from global investors, it said. Samsung Electronics had to suspend operation in many of its factories around the world but production has still remained in Vietnam.
No new community COVID-19 infections for 20 straight days
As of 18:00 on May 6, Vietnam had recorded no new COVID-19 cases, making it the 20th straight day without new infections within the community, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.
The national count stands still at 271, including 131 imported cases who were quarantined upon arrival, the committee said.
As many as 34,097 are under quarantine or health monitoring, of whom 245 stay at concentrated facilities in hospitals, 10,293 at other quarantine facilities and 23,559 at home and accommodations.
The committee’s treatment subcommittee reported that 232 patients have recovered or been discharged from hospital so far, while the remainder are being treated at centrally-run and provincial medical facilities, most of them now in stable conditions.
To date, 16 patients tested negative for SARS-CoV-2 once, and six twice or more.
