Vietnam: Long-term economic solutions needed to cope with pandemic

TNG Investment and Trading JSC produces facemasks to fill out the withdrawn clothes orders in Covid-19. - The Vietnam News/ANN

HANOI, March 13 (The Vietnam News/ANN): As the Covid-19 pandemic could continue to have serious impacts on a global scale and may only be eliminated in four to five years, experts have said Vietnam needs long-term policies to cope.

At the launch of a report on the impact of the pandemic on Vietnamese firms by the World Bank (WB) and the Vietnam Chamber for Commerce and Industry (VCCI) yesterday in Hanoi, VCCI’s chairman Vu Tien Loc said though vaccines were being distributed in many countries, humanity was still facing great risks.