vietnam covid lockdown timeline

This article documents the chronology and epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the coronavirus disease 2019 ( COVID-19) and is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, in March 2023. "The rate of close contacts (who used to be negative) becoming positive is very high. Vietnam's pandemic lockdown has been so long I've lost my sense of time. [120], On 22 March, Vietnam recorded over fourteen new patients, surpassing over 100 patients for the first time. Of which, 42 clusters have not been controlled, including: 20 in the province, 10 directly connected with the outbreak in Ho Chi Minh City and 12 with unknown sources of infection (detected through rapid testing in medical facilities). Deputy Prime Minister V c am, head of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control, urged all competent forces to remain vigilant and stand ready to deal with new developments of the pandemic. The HCDC had tested more than 151 thousand people linked to the outbreak. ", "Vietnam PM warns of long coronavirus fight as crisis deepens", "HCM City, Hanoi accelerate testing, vaccinations against COVID-19", "Nhiu a phng ni lng gin cch, m li cc dch v", "Vit Nam pht hin ca nhim Omicron u tin", "Asia's COVID success stories become the world's worst hot spots", "Vietnam Mulls Shift to Covid Endemic Path as Virus Surges", "L do cha coi COVID-19 l bnh lu hnh", "Vit Nam cch ly hai bnh nhn b st nhp cnh t V Hn, Trung Quc", "Yu cu kch hot ngay trung tm phng chng dch khn cp bnh vim phi do virus corona", "Bnh nhn vim phi corona th hai TP HCM xut vin", "One of Vietnam's first confirmed coronavirus patients recovers", "40 i phn ng nhanh ng ph virus corona sn sng cho tnh hung xu nht - Bo Ngi lao ng", "3 ngi Vit u tin nhim nCoV i qua nhng u? This man has passed the Moc Bai border gate and may contacted with some Cambodians. [80], On 34 February, Vietnam announced their eighth and ninth case: a 29-year-old female (#8) and a 30-year-old male (#9). Vietnam: Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City: HCMC), Nhan Tran & Phu My (since 2005) . After managing to contain COVID-19 for much of last year, Vietnam has recorded 348,000 infections and 8,277 fatalities, with the majority recorded since late April. Many returned from various countries, including Britain, Malaysia, and France; which were at the time severely hit by COVID-19. He did not make a prediction about the epidemic in Ho Chi Minh City because of "many variables" and "the situation depends a lot on the implementation of epidemic prevention measures". The following is a timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Vietnam. The Cuban government also sent a team of health experts into the epicenter, Da Nang. [24][25] After two months, by using the same strategies that have been used in the first outbreak, Vietnam has successfully contained the disease for the second time and has resumed almost all economic activities, including international commercial flights. [237], At the COVID-19 Steering Committee meeting, Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Nguyn Thnh Phong said the city would not organize fireworks on Reunification Day. [59], In March 2022, Prime Minister Phm Minh Chnh declared COVID-19 to be "endemic" and considered ending daily reporting of new cases. [91], On 13 February, father of case No. Case #418, a 61-year-old man living in Hi Chu District, was in serious condition, and had to use a ventilator. [278] The Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee in a meeting on 14 July recorded the number of COVID-19 deaths in the city in the fourth wave to 130, four times the number announced by the Ministry of Health. [204][205], By 25 March 2021, Vietnam had 25 COVID-19 clusters related to the outbreaks, these are most notable five:[206][207], Since the third wave began, Vietnam recorded 910 cases in community in 13 cities and provinces. Hanoi dispatched a medical team to the coastal city and called an emergency meeting the next day on prevention efforts. [227], On the evening of 25 March, a Chinese man living in Thuan An City, Binh Duong Province took the COVID test to go to Cambodia, tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. During the Da Nang outbreak in August, 10 provinces were locked down. Hospitals are also required to take samples of all patients in departments of emergency, emergency resuscitation, intensive care and random samples of at least 30% of patients in the remaining departments to early detect potential cases. [220] With the COVID-19 outbreaks gradually being brought under control, Hi Dng province lifted restrictions in few areas on 3 March, after 15 days of stringent province-wide lockdown measures. The hospital took samples from more than 800 medical staff and patients. At the end of June, the outbreak in Bc Ninh was brought under control, there are three main clusters include: K Hospital (National Cancer Hospital) cluster: The source of infection is from the NHTD cluster. [63], On 23 January, Vietnam confirmed the first two cases of COVID-19. Vietnamese and Chinese border forces have set up nine joint teams to prevent cross-border crimes and illegal immigration.[231]. In Ho Chi Minh City, after 4 months of applying strict "social distancing" measures to curb the pandemic, the city eased restrictions from the evening of 30 September 2021. [271], Nng cluster: As of 11 May, the city had 43 positive cases, and eight cases in six other localities, all related to New Phuong Dong discotheque, AMIDA salon and Phu An hotel. She had flown back to Vietnam in a private jet with quarantined cabin after becoming aware that case No. City health officials quarantined 343 close contacts and tested them; all the tests were negative. In addition, the province also recorded three more medical staff infected while on duty. More than 25,000 close contacts identified and tested. Another cause for the rapid spread of the disease in industrial zones, according to the leaders of Bc Giang province, is the Provincial Management Board of Industrial Parks and the Department of Health was too slow when detect and isolate infected workers at the beginning, especially at the outbreak in Vn Trung industrial park. After nine days, the disease in here had spread to seven districts in Nng. The first human cases of COVID-19 were identified in Wuhan, China in December 2019. The five largest of them were the one in the northern province of Bc Ninh and Bc Giang, the central region city of Nng, the Christian mission in Ho Chi Minh City and at a major hospital in Hanoi. As a result, no one is permitted to leave the city, and only emergency services are permitted to operate. The disease prevention in the locality is difficult because the province has many industrial parks, hostels with a large number of workers from all over the country come here every day. Kien Giang province has 12 districts and three cities that share a border with Cambodia, a total length of 56km, a coastline of more than 200km long with over 63,000 km2 of sea surface, thousands of fishing boats of the two countries operating every day. At sea there is also a patrol force consisting of nine ships and two boats of the Border Guard, Fisheries Surveillance, and Coast Guard. [5][6][7] The first cluster also appeared in Son Loi Commune, Bnh Xuyn District, Vnh Phc after a few workers returned from a training trip in Wuhan and infected other people in closecontact with them. [171] The second case was a 48-year-old South Korean expert who was residing in Ho Chi Minh City and tested positive for COVID-19 after leaving the city for Japan on 25 October. [133][134], On 6 July, a group of doctors who had been overseeing the treatment of Patient 91, a British pilot who was Vietnam's most critical COVID-19 case, announced that he has made substantial progress and his health condition allows him to travel. [200], On 15 February, Hanoi CDC recorded one case was a deceased 53-year-old Japanese expert, his body was found inside Somerset West Point hotel room. [65] Vietnamese doctors documented and reported the two cases to medical journal The New England Journal of Medicine, at that time this was the first concrete evidence to the scientific community about human-to-human transmission of the disease outside China. More than 143,000 workers have returned to Ho Chi Minh City, ng Nai to work. [105], On 10 March, a 24-year-old Vietnamese woman who had just returned from England and previously had close contact with case No. [172], On 29 November, the Ministry of Health recorded a newly confirmed case of COVID-19 known as patient 1342, he was a 28-year-old male Vietnam Airlines flight attendant who returned to Vietnam from Japan on 14 November. [191][192], On 28 January, Vietnam Ministry of Health confirmed two community cases of COVID-19 in Hi Dng and Qung Ninh. Total Coronavirus Cases in Vietnam. According to Bc Giang's COVID-19 situation report, the number of patients will certainly increase, because there are more than 50,000 high-risk samples have not been tested. 17. HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam, which has reported under 300 cases of coronavirus and no deaths since the first infections were detected in January, said on Wednesday it would start lifting tough. [110], On 12 March morning, Vietnamese Ministry of Health reported the 39th case of the country. [66], On 29 January, the Ministry of Health established 40 mobile emergency response teams, on stand-by to assist affected locations, for quarantining, disinfecting, and transporting patients or suspected patients. Directive 10 mandates that non-essential business services, spontaneous marketplaces, and public passenger transportation must be halted and no more than three individuals may gather in public spaces with the minimum distance of 1.5 meters. [42], National Hospital of Tropical Disease (NHTD) cluster: At the meeting of the Steering Committee for COVID-19 prevention in Hanoi on the afternoon of 4 May, Director of Hanoi Department of Health Trn Th Nh H received a report from the NHTD about a positive case of SARS-CoV-2 who is a doctor working at this hospital. . During the rapid screening test, the Bc Ninh Department of Health discovered one positive case of COVID-19 known as patient 3055 in Mo in commune (Thun Thnh district). By mid-June, this cluster was determined to be under control after 26 days without new cases in the community. From 3 September 2020 to 15 May 2021, the country recorded no new COVID-19 related deaths. New daily cases have surpassed 10,000 and deaths are being reported in hundreds. May 25, 2021, 6:33 pm SGT HANOI (REUTERS) - Vietnam widened lockdown measures in its industrialised north on Tuesday (May 25) to combat its biggest Covid-19 outbreak so far, as the. In 14,000 test samples since the beginning of the pandemic, 38 positive cases were found, of which 18 patients were being treated at Ha Tien Medical Center. But as the outbreak has spread around the world, it has become more . Most of these are related to a single Hi Dng migrant worker, who was diagnosed with the UK coronavirus variant by Japanese authorities after arriving in Osaka on 17 January. [224] According to the city's health department, the tests will be conducted first in residential areas in Nam Tu Liem district and An Khanh Industrial Zone in Hoai Duc district on 11 March and 12 March. [242][243], In May 2021, many small outbreaks, most of which unrelated to each other, were discovered in many localities. The epicenter was in Hai Duong, this local outbreak accounting for nearly 80% of the total number of cases. [257][258][259], Bc Giang cluster: Bc Giang was the second epicenter in the fourth wave with 5,600 confirmed cases,[260] the outbreak in here forced the authorities to quarantine four districts in the province and Bc Giang city. [96][97] Within the night, the government proceeded to track and isolate roughly 200 people who either had close contact, lived on the same street, or had been on the same flight VN0054 from London as patient No. Research and data: Edouard Mathieu, Hannah Ritchie, Lucas Rods-Guirao, Cameron Appel, Daniel Gavrilov, Charlie Giattino, Joe Hasell, Bobbie Macdonald, Saloni Dattani, Diana Beltekian, Esteban Ortiz-Ospina, and Max Roser. Bc Giang Province's Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control assessed that the cause of this may from cases at Vn Trung Industrial Park. [273], In August, Nng discovered two large clusters are Ha Cng market and Th Quang fishing port. The Ministry of Health also provides detailed guidance documents for F0s, teaching them to self-care, monitor their health and contact medical facilities in case of severe symptoms. Vietnam had zero Covid-19 deaths It may seem like Vietnam got off easy, but that's not by chance. [168], As of 28 October, Vietnam has not found any new cases of community transmission. The Border Guard Command has established 118 more posts, bringing the total number of border control posts to 1,798, which served by more than 11,300 soldiers. Chairman of the People's Committee of Nng L Trung Chinh signed a decision to extend the time of social distancing and asked people to self-isolate themselves until 26 August. HCMC has set up 96 injection sites in all of its districts and over 300 mobile injection sites in industrial zones. [19] Vietnam began loosening restrictions in May, including resuming domestic travel across the country. The majority of cases are in the province are came from the UK strains. - Tui Tr Online", "Bnh nhn th 16 nhim virus corona xut vin hm nay", "Coronavirus miracle? The city continued to conduct random testing in community. Passengers must provide COVID-19 negative certificate issued by the host country within three days before boarding. At Hosiden Company, the rate was 55%. On 23 May, the Hanoi Center for Disease Control announced a case positive for COVID-19 who was a student at Vinschool Primary School. The source of infection of the first case has yet to be identified. One was a one-year-old boy in District 6. Reuters Daily Briefing All the news you need to start your day. Vietnam entered a nationwide lockdown on April 1. Most of the cases of COVID-19 are teachers and primary school students, resulting in their family members being infected as well. [135][136], By the end of July, Vietnam had gone more than three months without new COVID-19 cases from local transmission. 1.1.2 March 2020-2021: sporadic outbreaks and strict measures News of the worsening coronavirus crisis hit Vietnam shares on Friday, with its benchmark index closing down 3.3 per cent. [122], From 17 to 23 April, no new cases were confirmed. The son was believed to have contracted the virus from his father, who had earlier flown from Wuhan on 13 January, when they met in Nha Trang on 17 January. This was the first case related to military personnel in the country. Thun Thnh District was the first cluster in the province with 591 cases, the outbreak in here have been contained. The patient (case #17), a 26-year-old woman, had been travelling across Europe during the outbreak. This raises concerns about an outbreak from people who entered illegally into the city area. [13][14][15], After 21 March 2020, Vietnam suspended entry for all foreigners from midnight of 22 March, and introduced concentrated isolation for 14 days in all cases of entry for Vietnamese citizens. [266], After nearly two months in lockdown, the situation in Bc Giang continued to improve gradually with no new clusters being reported. The hotel where he and his family had stayed has been temporarily locked down while authorities also disinfected the nearby restaurant and car in which they traveled. These people also attended a wedding on 30 April in Mo in commune and this wedding turned into a superspreading event (SSEV). This group of people was tested twice by Hanoi CDC. This cluster was identified by the leaders of the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in Hanoi as having reached the 2nd or 3rd infection cycle. Stage 2: Localized community transmission, Stage 3: Large-scale community transmission, This page was last edited on 26 January 2023, at 19:48. [30] Initially, the government only quarantine the areas directly related to the infected people to limit the economic impact. The program is implemented with 3 main activities, including: take samples for testing at home, providing medicine boxes and a number of health-promoting products, and at the same time supporting health counseling, provide food packages for infected people and their family members to stay at home, reducing the risk of spread. [37][38] As the epidemic has spread to many provinces in Vietnam, many outbreaks are occurring in many localities at the same time, making it "nearly impossible" to trace and cut the chain of infection. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 1 Field Hospital at the Vietnam National University dorms. [232] Vietnam also donated $500,000 to Cambodia along with 800 ventilators, 2 million medical masks and 300,000 N95 masks. [74] Noticeably, this case was the first domestic transmission in Vietnam, leading to an epidemic declaration signed by the Vietnamese Prime Minister and calls for border tightening, aviation permits revoked, and visa restriction. 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Vietnam deploys troops to enforce COVID lockdown in largest city | Reuters Every weekday. Was the most dangerous and the reason for most of the cases in Vietnam's northern localities. [199], At a meeting on 31 January, Hanoi People's Committee announced the decision to close all bars, karaoke parlors, and discotheques, residents are required to avoid non-essential gatherings from 1 February. [111] Evening of the same day, five more cases were announced (#40-#44), all are related to patient number 34. Few days later, six people in this group tested positive for COVID-19. Clusters have been found in industrial parks in Bac Giang province and then in at least ten major hospitals in the country. As of 21 August, the infection chain related to Th Quang fishing port and at the quarantine areas in Sn Tr recorded 1,124 cases while Ha Cng market chain is at "very high risk" with 699 patients. So he signed an end of quarantine term with two negatives for all 89 people, instead of 84 people. Through testing, 75 more positive cases were found, most of them were workers in the same factory with her. [181], In the emergency meeting in response to the COVID-19 outbreak on 1 December in Hanoi, PM Nguyn Xun Phc announced that international commercial flights would be halted and everyone entering the country would have to be quarantined in military barracks or local quarantine areas. One person in close contact with these people also gave a positive result in Ho Chi Minh City. At the end of May, Bc Giang established its largest field hospital located at the province's public stadium. The epidemic has spread to 20/25 provinces and cities of this country. His samples were sent to the Pasteur Institute in Nha Trang and to the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology in Hanoi for more tests and the results also came back positive. [102], On 8 March, another case in Hanoi was announced, which was a 61-year-old man. BY KATHY KATELLA March 9, 2021. In Vung Tau city, 70 kilometres. [17] On the same day, former Prime Minister Nguyn Xun Phc announced the nationwide outbreak of COVID-19. On January 4, Hanoi CDC returned the test results of the remaining 5 people, including patient 1498. After an investigation, 5 people who had had close contact with the patient were identified; none of them wore face masks.

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