Community-Based Measures to Against the COVID-19: An Experience From Vietnam With Consecutive 3 Months of no New Infection in the Community During the First Wave of Pandemic

Nguyen Hai Nam; Bao-Tran Do Le; Nguyen Tien Huy

doi:10.3389/fpubh.2021.583655

Community-Based Measures to Against the COVID-19: An Experience From Vietnam With Consecutive 3 Months of no New Infection in the Community During the First Wave of Pandemic

Front Public Health. 2021 Jul 21:9:583655. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.583655. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Nguyen Hai Nam^{1

2}, Bao-Tran Do Le³, Nguyen Tien Huy⁴

Affiliations

¹ Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
² Faculty of Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
³ Department of Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States.
⁴ School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan.

Abstract

Vietnam has faced a high risk of transmission of COVID-19 during the pandemic. Despite the specific challenges that come with a low-resource country, the Vietnamese government has provided a sustainable response, demonstrating both great capacity and rapid decision-making to manage the entirety of the COVID-19 outbreak with lessons learned from the SARS and H1N1 epidemics in 2003 and 2009, respectively. A rapid response, specific epidemiological F0-F5 tracing system, and public education are some of the key measures that have helped Vietnam to control the outbreak. As of July 15, 2020, Vietnam has reported 373 accumulated confirmed cases and no deaths within the last 90 consecutive days of no new infections in the community. Vietnam can now consider declaring an end to the COVID-19 crisis on their part.

Keywords: COVID-19; Vietnam; control measures; epidemiological F0–F5 tracing system; outbreak.

MeSH terms

COVID-19*
Humans
Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype*
Pandemics / prevention & control
SARS-CoV-2
Vietnam / epidemiology