HANOI: Vietnam reported no new cases of Covid-19 (coronavirus)infection on Sunday morning, the ninth day in a row, with its total confirmed cases remaining at 270, according to its Ministry of Health.
The country has also reported no new Covid-19 cases in the community for 16 consecutive days, Vietnam News Agency cited the National Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control as saying on Saturday.
A total of 219 Covid-19 patients have recovered in the country, with no deaths reported, while there are 443 suspected cases and over 30,000 people being monitored and quarantined as of Saturday evening, according to the health ministry.
Vietnam health experts say the country was successful because it made early, decisive moves to restrict travel into the country, put tens of thousands of people into quarantine and quickly scaled up the use of tests and a system to track down people who might have been exposed to the virus.
“The steps are easy to describe but difficult to implement, yet they’ve been very successful at implementing them over and over again,” said Matthew Moore, a Hanoi-based official from the US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), who has been liaising with Vietnam’s government on the outbreak since early January.
He added that the CDC has “great confidence” in the Vietnamese government’s response to the crisis.
Vietnam increased the number of laboratories that can test for Covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, from three at the beginning of the outbreak in January, to 112 by April.
As of Saturday, more than 213,000 tests had been conducted in Vietnam, of which 270 were positive, according to health ministry data.
That ratio of 791 tests to every confirmed case is by far the highest in the world, according to data from health ministries compiled by Reuters. The next highest, Taiwan, has conducted 140 tests for every case. - Vietnam News/Asian News Network
The country has also reported no new Covid-19 cases in the community for 16 consecutive days, Vietnam News Agency cited the National Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control as saying on Saturday.
A total of 219 Covid-19 patients have recovered in the country, with no deaths reported, while there are 443 suspected cases and over 30,000 people being monitored and quarantined as of Saturday evening, according to the health ministry.
Vietnam health experts say the country was successful because it made early, decisive moves to restrict travel into the country, put tens of thousands of people into quarantine and quickly scaled up the use of tests and a system to track down people who might have been exposed to the virus.
“The steps are easy to describe but difficult to implement, yet they’ve been very successful at implementing them over and over again,” said Matthew Moore, a Hanoi-based official from the US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), who has been liaising with Vietnam’s government on the outbreak since early January.
He added that the CDC has “great confidence” in the Vietnamese government’s response to the crisis.
Vietnam increased the number of laboratories that can test for Covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, from three at the beginning of the outbreak in January, to 112 by April.
As of Saturday, more than 213,000 tests had been conducted in Vietnam, of which 270 were positive, according to health ministry data.
That ratio of 791 tests to every confirmed case is by far the highest in the world, according to data from health ministries compiled by Reuters. The next highest, Taiwan, has conducted 140 tests for every case. - Vietnam News/Asian News Network
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