[162], On 30 August, Vietnam recorded its first day without new cases since the beginning of the second outbreak. That was from the test result of nearly 2,500 samples taken in quarantine areas in the province. Over 3 hundred thousand workers in industrial parks and manufacturing areas were sampled. [236] According to the city Department of Health, there are currently 20 public hospitals and 24 non-public hospitals. [94], On 3 March, after 20 days without new case of coronavirus, Son Loi village was approved to remove quarantine. 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. HANOI, Vietnam (AP) Vietnam put its entire southern region in a two-week lockdown starting midnight Sunday, as confirmed COVID-19 cases exceeded 3,000 for the third day in a row. However, the deputy director of Chuong My District Medical Center mistook the number of people with negative test results. A 42-year-old female met and greeted with the case No. The second is from "patient 16052" in ng Ha town and the third is from "patient 15541" who used to be treated in H Ch Minh City. [141] On 25 July, the Ministry of Health confirmed the case in Da Nang, ending 99 continuous days of Vietnam not confirming any local transmission cases. The first cases discovered in Ho Chi Minh City were two people from Wuhan (China), the disease then spread in 13 other localities. Enterprise-managed quarantine was abolished after one person quarantined at a Vietnam Airlines facility spread COVID-19 to the community. The province had set up 280 ICU beds and implemented a vaccination campaign for the entire Lam Thao district with 30,000 doses. [153][154], More than 200 health workers from all over Vietnam are sent to the central coastal provinces to support the epidemic prevention. According to the director of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health, the origin of these infections may be due to the disease that has been silently spreading in the community before, from people who have been in contact with infected person or they had travelled through endemic areas but not declared health status. On 16 October, the administration of Ho Chi Minh City closed the No. [219], On 2 March, both Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City were allowed most non-essential services to reopen except bars, dance clubs, karaoke parlors, gyms and pool table. [100], On 7 March afternoon, a 27-year-old Vietnamese was diagnosed with COVID-19 and moved into quarantine in Ninh Bnh Province for treatment, making this the 18th case. Many hostels are located near to factories and businesses. [156], On 6 August, Vietnam confirmed its tenth death, the first to be diagnosed as having COVID-19 after death. These are the first two localities of Ho Chi Minh City successfully brought F0 out of the community, limited the number of new cases and have a high rate of COVID-19 vaccine coverage in the community. Mon 14 Dec . [282], Christian mission cluster: The cluster at Revival Ekklesia Mission had more than 520 cases in H Ch Minh City and six other provinces. In response to this, the city People's Committee implemented Directive 10 on 20 June. The High Command also requested the Minister of Defence to provide additional 4,000 body bags. [159], On 14 August, the Vietnamese government decided to isolate Hi Dng city for 15 days after four residents tested positive, none of whom had travel history to Da Nang. The number has since jumped to nearly. The first wave of the COVID-19 started in Vietnam (lasts for 85 days, from January 23 to April 16, 2020, included 100 community cases) with the original virus strain from Wuhan (China), and no deaths were reported. From the end of April 2021, Vietnam experienced "a fast-spreading outbreak" of more than 350,000 cases. Ministry of Health of Vietnam (Chart from Vietnam Ministry of Health). [112], On 13 March three more cases (numbers 45 to 47) were announced, related to case No. On the afternoon of 30 November after receiving the information, Minister of Health Nguyn Thanh Long convened an emergency meeting with the Ho Chi Minh Department of Health to implement full pandemic prevention measures across the city. Vietnam deploys troops to enforce COVID lockdown in largest city | Reuters Every weekday. Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Vietnam. On the morning of 7 May, 10 people at K Hospital, Tn Triu Branch (Thanh Tr District, Hanoi) had positive results for SARS-CoV-2 including four patients and six patients relatives. His parents had sent him to patient 1347's home to look after him a few days previously. For prevention of a large scale outbreak, Bc Giang decided to quarantined every people in Vit Yn district, where there are two industrial zones located from 15 May. [132], On 25 June, a flight from Japan to Vietnam took off from Narita International Airport; this was the first flight since the two countries agreed to ease travel restrictions which were imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [88], The 15th case was identified on 11 February, a 3-month-old grandchild of case No. [28][29], The third wave of infection began on 28 January 2021, when Vietnam recorded an additional 84 community transmission cases within a single day in Hi Dng and Qung Ninh provinces. Nine people in close contact with this female student were quarantined. The latter is often called a lockdown. [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. [128], A previously discharged patient in H Nam was pronounced dead on 4 May, later confirmed to have died from liver failure and not COVID-19. [239] Results of genetic sequencing at the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology in Hanoi showed that four cases of COVID-19 in the group of Indian experts were from the Delta variant. Was the most dangerous and the reason for most of the cases in Vietnam's northern localities. [86], On 9 February, a 55-year-old woman, a neighbour of case No. This is a dangerous cluster because the patients have been infected for a long time, have moved to many places and came into contact with many people. During the last 2021 Lunar New Year holiday, Ho Chi Minh City also planned to hold a fireworks display at 8 places but was forced to cancel it in the end because of a COVID-19 outbreak. Recent reports of a large number of foreigners, mainly Chinese, illegally entering the country, showing "lax immigration management". Two days later, China puts Wuhan under strict lockdown. Vietnam has been slow to procure vaccines and until late April had. From 26 June to 5 July, as the epidemic spread, the city continued to increase its capacity to half a million samples per day in order to test 5 million people in its districts and in Th c city. Pages for logged out editors learn more. This is one of the biggest aid from Vietnam to another countries in prevention against COVID-19. Related to the illegal entrants from Laos. After nine days, the disease in here had spread to seven districts in Nng. [95], On 6 March night, Hanoi urgently announced a new case of coronavirus, the first one found in the capital of Vietnam. [268][269][270] On 3 August, the provincial government removed the last quarantine zone in L Nhn District. [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. [138], The night of 23 July, the Da Nang Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Da Nang CDC) took samples from more than 100 people thought to have been in contact with the man during the previous days, including his family members, and all of them tested negative. [66][67] On 29 January, the 2nd COVID-19 patient had fully recovered and was discharged. The second one was a 28-year-old female student of patient 1347 at an English language center. [131], On 29 May, after a long period without any confirmed cases of local transmission, Vietnam Airlines announced that it had completely restored its domestic flights after months under lockdown; international flights, however, remain suspended. 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. [183], On 26 December, a 32 years-old man known as patient 1440, live in Vinh Long Province has tested positive for the COVID-19 after illegally entering Vietnam. The patient, a Muslim from the Cham minority, had participated in the Tablighi Jamaat in Sri Petaling mosque, Malaysia, where he got infected before returning to Vietnam and attended the Jamiul Muslimin Mosque in Ho Chi Minh City before returning home in Ninh Thun. Case No. [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. [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. This is the 17th case in Vietnam. [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 authorities expected that when the test results of all close contacts are available, there may be some new cases here. At the meeting, it was announced that the newly discovered positive case was directly related to patient 1342 announced on 29 November. At sea there is also a patrol force consisting of nine ships and two boats of the Border Guard, Fisheries Surveillance, and Coast Guard. ", the representative of Bc Giang province's health department said. [297], in Bin cluster: On 14 May, Nm P district, in Bin province recorded the first COVID-19 case, was a female employee working in a boarding school for ethnic minorities. 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. Most of the cases from the cluster that were sequenced have been confirmed to have the B.1.1.7 variant. 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. [294][295], On 2 September, District 7 and C Chi District declared that the epidemic in here was under control. ", "Dch COVID-19: Bc Ninh v Bc Giang d kin quay li trng thi "bnh thng mi" t 10/7", Chiu 3/5, thm 10 ca mc COVID-19 trong cng ng ti H Nam, Vnh Phc, H Nam pht hin 4 ca dng tnh SARS-CoV-2 lin quan dch L Nhn, "Khu vc c dch COVID-19 cui cng H Nam c d b phong ta", 7 ca mc Covid-19 Nng lm cng thm m vin AMIDA. Speed up the completion of the new Kien Giang General Hospital and using the old provincial general hospital as a field hospital if the epidemic becomes more severe. Of Vietnam's nearly 16,000 COVID-19 fatalities . From 3 September 2020 to 15 May 2021, the country recorded no new COVID-19 related deaths. The force of doctors involved in assisting Kien Giang includes 13 people, including specialists in resuscitation, artificial kidneys, infection control. During the Da Nang outbreak in August, 10 provinces were locked down. These people had previously received two doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. [147][148][149][150], On 31 July, Vietnam confirmed 82 new cases, including 45 cases in Da Nang, 20 cases in Hanoi, 8 cases in Quang Nam Province, 6 cases in Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province, and 3 cases in Ho Chi Minh City. GitHub export from English Wikipedia. After seven days of extensive testing, the health sector recorded an additional 388 positive cases residing in two alleys 328, 330 and other nearby apartments. BY KATHY KATELLA March 9, 2021. [30] Initially, the government only quarantine the areas directly related to the infected people to limit the economic impact. More than 50 people who had been in contact with the suspected patient at the Da Nang C Hospital were quarantined immediately and the hospital was locked down the next day. [301][302], T&T company and Times City cluster: In the fourth wave, there a total of 171 community cases have been reported from 20/30 districts in Hanoi. Most of those cases related to patient #2899, who returned from Japan (also isolated at Nng before) but did not self quarantine at home. ", "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? 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[280], On 16 August, the Ministry of Health piloted a "home-based care" program for positive cases in the city. [223], From 11 March 2020, Hanoi will conduct mass community testing to detect COVID-19 cases in the community early, particularly in high-risk areas like restaurants, coach stations, factories or areas where many foreigners reside. This case was treated at the NHTD from 24 April. On 23 June, the patient showed signs of fever and fatigue. Although the first case was detected in the Park 11 building, through preliminary assessment from public health units, it is possible that the outbreak originated from the T&T company, not from the family living in Park 11.[303][304]. [262] Notably, the newly discovered cluster at Hosiden Vietnam Company (Quang Chu Industrial Park) has recorded a total of 660 cases (11% of its total employees). [85], Earlier of the same day, Vietnam declared to have successfully cultured and isolated the virus in the lab, one of the early countries to do this, along with Singapore, Australia, Japan and China. [292] Notably, when Ho Chi Minh City Hospital for Tropical Diseases tested RT-PCR for 887 employees on 13 June, it recorded 53 positive cases with COVID-19. Vietnam reported just 1,500 cases of COVID-19 during the whole of 2020, and was the only nation in Southeast Asia to record positive growth for the year. Under lockdown restrictions that are due to expire September 15, residents can't leave home unless it's for an emergency, while orders for groceries are placed through a government system that is. The COVID-19 pandemic in Vietnam has resulted in 11,526,917 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 43,186 deaths. This was the first case related to military personnel in the country. 09 DEC 2022. [122], From 17 to 23 April, no new cases were confirmed. The province's health sector has no experience in epidemic prevention while the number of cases in the community is in large numbers. 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. Those routes has hundreds of buses going to Lng Sn and the southern provinces stop to pick up passengers every day. [218] On Lunar New Year's Eve 12 February, all provinces and cities stopped firing fireworks and New Year festivals to limit crowds (except for Hanoi still had one fireworks display spot at Thng Nht Park, instead of 30 as planned). COVID-19 Timeline; COVID-19 stats; COVID-19, a year and half later. The following is a timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Vietnam. [17] On the same day, former Prime Minister Nguyn Xun Phc announced the nationwide outbreak of COVID-19. [234], From 20 February to 22 April, about 1,300 people entered through Ha Tien border gate, including 31 cases of illegal entry. 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. During first 15 days of lockdown, the city set up 38 checkpoints surrounding G Vp, effectively controlling the infection chain linked to the mission, which had approximately 6 hundred cases. Given the stabilizing situation in the province, the outbreak control special unit has been dissolved and supported medical workforces have gradually decreased since the second week of June. [44] The government also mobilized 10,000 troops to the city to enforce the lockdown and deliver food supplies. [citation needed], The country entered second wave of infection when the Ministry of Health announced the 416th case in Da Nang, which was the first case with an unknown source of infection in 99 days. The 23-year-old man had stayed with patient 1440 in Myanmar before they crossed the Vietnamese border with other seven people. The police arrested three people, including two Vietnamese nationals and one Chinese national for "organizing illegal entry into Vietnam" after they found that dozens of Chinese nationals were illegally crossing the border. The 4th Coast Guard Region Command, has also sent 32 boats to the region. According to the reports of the Ministry of Health, Yn Bi and its related clusters are basically under controlled. [63], On 23 January, Vietnam confirmed the first two cases of COVID-19. 5 during Lunar New Year holiday. This person was hospitalized at Sa c General Hospital from 10 June due to an abscess in the shoulder. They belonged to the same training team with the previous confirmed cases of three (cases #3-through-5). 5, tested positive; the 14th case. [120], On 22 March, Vietnam recorded over fourteen new patients, surpassing over 100 patients for the first time. [161] Out of 152 cases of illegal entry discovered in Ho Chi Minh City since May, Chinese people account for 72%, Cambodians 11%, and the rest were Vietnamese and Korean, the Center for Disease Control in Ho Chi Minh City (HCDC) said. One was a one-year-old boy in District 6. [275], In addition to distancing and blockade measures, the city has increased testing in order to track down unidentified cases in the community. [279] Due to large number of patients, all close contacts of coronavirus cases are self-isolated at home to reduce the overload at local quarantine facilities. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. After an investigation, 5 people who had had close contact with the patient were identified; none of them wore face masks. HANOI, July 31 (Reuters) - Vietnam will from Monday extend strict curbs on movement in its business hub Ho Chi Minh City and another 18 cities and provinces throughout its south for another two. - Tui Tr Online", "Bnh nhn th 16 nhim virus corona xut vin hm nay", "Coronavirus miracle? [69] A week after the first two cases, three positive cases were confirmed by the Ministry of Health, involving Vietnamese nationals who had returned from Wuhan. 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