Hanoi to focus on virus containment

Showing the way: While it has made efforts to get a vaccine eventually, Vietnam’s lauded performance in containing Covid-19 has essentially bought it some time before its own vaccine can be ready. — AFP

HANOI will stick to its strategy of containing Covid-19 rather than rushing to secure a supply of a vaccine that could be expensive and potentially risky, the head of the country’s coronavirus task force said.

Through months of aggressive testing, military-run centralised quarantine and early border closures, Vietnam has kept its case tally to just 1,210 cases and gone over two months without community transmission.