Workers in a factory in Vietnam (Photo: EPA)
Hanoi (VNA) - Vietnam has earned the highesttrust globally in battling COVID-19, with 95 percent of respondents expressing sucha belief in a recent poll by UK data analysis and market research firm YouGov.
The country has reported 332 COVID-19 cases to date, ofwhich 317 have recovered. Most notably, there have been no fatalities.
Of the remaining 15 patients in hospital, only nine havetested positive for SARS-CoV-2 which causes COVID-19.
The Financial Times ran an article highlighting thatHanoi and Ho Chi Minh City are “roaring back to life after theircoronavirus-related partial lockdowns.”
It emphasised the disciplined public health response adoptedby the Vietnamese Government, companies, and people, adding that the country isgetting back to a “new normal”.
“Vietnam’s schools, restaurants, cinemas, andnightclubs are all open again, while football matches at stadiums packed withcheering spectators have been allowed to resume,” it continued.
While a second wave of infections is a risk in somecountries, Vietnam has gone 55 consecutive days with no new communitytransmissions.
It was among the first countries to be hit by thevirus, after China, and is now among the first to emerge from the worst of thecrisis, the paper said.
The country undertook rigorous contact-tracing,locating not just primary but secondary contacts of infected people and bringingthem into quarantine.
It is now considering reopening its borders to somecommercial flights, with safeguards in place, the article said, adding theprospects for recovery look relatively bright for Vietnam, with an economicgrowth projection of 5 percent this year./.
