17. [115], On 16 March, a new case was reported in Vietnam, known as the 61st patient. [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. All three cluster related to Hi Dng and Qung Ninh. [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. These people had previously received two doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. 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. The number of deaths from 300 to 350 per day went down to more than 200. [102], On 8 March, another case in Hanoi was announced, which was a 61-year-old man. [157] The authorities began mass testing around the country for people coming from Da Nang in July. "The rate of close contacts (who used to be negative) becoming positive is very high. The epicenter was in Hai Duong, this local outbreak accounting for nearly 80% of the total number of cases. (This includes the Reuters. Epidemiological investigation showed during the 14-day quarantine period, he had tested negative for the virus once. Many hostels are located near to factories and businesses. [294][295], On 2 September, District 7 and C Chi District declared that the epidemic in here was under control. [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. Through testing, 75 more positive cases were found, most of them were workers in the same factory with her. Five family members picked him up by car and returned to Ha Long were subsequently quarantined and had their samples taken. In Hanoi, the authorities also requested suspension of unnecessary mass gathering events. [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. At the meeting, military officials said that the death rate in the field hospital was 2.56%, 94.2% in the ICU center, and 3.42% with home treatment. [62], On 14 January, two Chinese tourists with fever symptoms from Wuhan were quarantined by the authorities and placed under observation after they landed at Da Nang International Airport. The HCDC had tested more than 151 thousand people linked to the outbreak. [235], During an inspection of the epidemic prevention in Can Tho city on 26 April, the Ministry of Health requested the establishment of a regional field hospitals located in Can Tho to prepare all scenarios and resources to isolate and treat people entering the region from countries where the number of people with COVID-19 has been increasing. Ministry of Health of Vietnam (Chart from Vietnam Ministry of Health). In the past week, Vietnam's average new cases dropped by a third compared to earlier in the month when 14,000 were being recorded daily, the health ministry said. The Cambodian government has lockdown the capital Phnom Penh and many of its provinces from 15 April. According to WHO, a total of more than 14 million people have been placed under quarantine since the beginning of the pandemic. Numerous outbreaks were discovered in all localities. Case No. Under control. The cause of death still unknown. On 9 July, when the number of community infections in Ho Chi Minh City reached more than ten thousand, the government decided to lock down the entire city for 15 days. As the delta variant of COVID-19 has surged through Vietnam over the past two months, the country's central provinces have endured the strictest lockdown measures to date. [296], Bnh Dng cluster: Since the fourth wave of COVID-19 broke out, the total of cases in this local is over 16,000 (11% of total cases in Vietnam), mainly in hostels, companies and industrial parks. [113][114], On 14 March 6 cases were announced (numbers 48 to 53). Vietnam: Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City: HCMC), Nhan Tran & Phu My (since 2005) . Most of the newly discovered cases are the people who previously identified as close contacts. [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. [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. [241] Two days later, the country confirmed another 5 cases in H Nam, 3 cases in Hanoi and 2 cases in Hng Yn, all related to patient #2899. When he arrived at Kansai International Airport, he was tested by PCR and on 5 October the result came back positive. At the beginning of the outbreak, most of the cases were linked with hospitals cluster and related to Nng (47 cases), but in late May the authorities discovered a cluster with unknown source of infection at T&T company and Park 11 Times City apartment complex. Around 1.8 million of 98 million people, or 1.8 per cent of the country's population, have been fully vaccinated, one of the lowest rates in the region. [179][180] After contact tracing for the latest four patients, the city has placed under supervision 861 close contacts (F1), 1,400 people exposed to F1 (F2) and 1,002 others. As of Tuesday, the. That was from the test result of nearly 2,500 samples taken in quarantine areas in the province. 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. In the afternoon of 24 July, the man suspected of being infected with COVID-19 was suffering from acute and severe pneumonia and had to be supported by ECMO. Everyone entering country must be isolated for at least 14-day at the government's quarantine facilities, only special diplomats identified as such by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would be exempt. [68] His father, who was the 1st COVID-19 patient in Vietnam, was discharged on 12 February. Mr Hancock and top civil servant Simon Case joked about travellers 'locked up' in quarantine hotels during Covid lockdown The health secretary said the Government should 'get heavy with the police . [33][34] On 7 March 2021, the situation in northern provinces appears to have been largely brought under control when number of new cases fell to single digits. [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. [61] However, in August, the Ministry of Health issued a recommendation to not declare COVID-19 endemic, and to instead shift the country's response from "prevention" to "stable management". [184][185] On 29 December, two more people in that group tested positive. 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. Therefore, according to the Department of Health, pathogens came from dormitories to companies and factories, then from workers spread to other dormitories, forming large outbreaks. No cases reported for nearly two weeks. Case #418, a 61-year-old man living in Hi Chu District, was in serious condition, and had to use a ventilator. [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. According to the Ministry of Health, the majority of deaths are people with underlying diseases and the elderly, of which 85% have not been vaccinated. The next day, the director of the hospital ordered COVID testing for all employees, workers, patients and family members at its two facilities. New daily cases have surpassed 10,000 and deaths are being reported in hundreds. [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 patient (case #17), a 26-year-old woman, had been travelling across Europe during the outbreak. The first human cases of COVID-19 were identified in Wuhan, China in December 2019. The epidemic has spread to 20/25 provinces and cities of this country. 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. In only two weeks, Cambodia had 4,832 new cases, mainly in the community. [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. He was driven to a border gate in southern Vietnam two days ago then to Ho Chi Minh City, then got on a different bus to Vinh Long. "TP H Ch Minh phong ta thm 6 khu vc, tm dng cc hot ng khng cn thit, dng taxi, gii tn ch t pht", Dch TP HCM ly 4 chu k, xm nhp nhiu cng ty, khu cng nghip, S ca Covid-19 lin quan hi truyn gio ln hn 200, lan 6 tnh thnh, Nh my Khu cng ngh cao tng thm 119 ca nghi nhim, "5 nhnh ly nhim lin quan nhm truyn gio c kim sot", "Thm 31 nhn vin Bnh vin Bnh Nhit i TP HCM nghi Covid-19", "An observational study of breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant infections among vaccinated healthcare workers in Vietnam", "Mc Covid-19 sau tim vaccine: ti lng virus thp, hi phc nhanh", Qun 7 v huyn C Chi, TP H Ch Minh cng b kim sot c dch COVID-19, Ca nhim Covid-19 tng vt 5 tnh pha Nam. logarithmic. ", the representative of Bc Giang province's health department said. Thanh Xun Trung cluster:[305] This cluster started from the first two patients in alley 330 Nguyen Trai at the end of August. [17] On the same day, former Prime Minister Nguyn Xun Phc announced the nationwide outbreak of COVID-19. [280], On 16 August, the Ministry of Health piloted a "home-based care" program for positive cases in the city. Source of infection for the first case who works at the company remains unknown. [182], On 9 December, following the instructions of the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City, the HCDC had conducted random COVID-19 testing at Mien Dong Coach Station to ensure that no infections are missed in the community. [166], After the central government considered that the COVID-19 outbreak has been brought under control, on 7 September, Da Nang has decided to ease its social distancing restrictions, and all passenger transportation and business enterprises resumed normal operations. [60] An article in Bloomberg noted that Vietnam has a high level of vaccination and has seen a dramatic drop in COVID-19 related deaths. [284][285] After just six days, 20 out of 22 districts and Ho Chi Minh City's key industrial parks had COVID-19 cases. As a first step, the administration of Ho Chi Minh City raised the anti-epidemic level on 31 May by putting G Vp District and Thnh Lc Ward in District 12 under lockdown and imposing social distancing for the other areas in the city. The authorities also conducted disinfection procedures at the places the patient lives and had visited. Most of those cases related to patient #2899, who returned from Japan (also isolated at Nng before) but did not self quarantine at home. For the first 16 cases of the disease, the medical staff had to treat different types of patients, including infants, the elderly and people with underlying conditions. [193] On the same day, the Japanese authorities announced the RT-PCR results of the 32-year-old girl imported from Vietnam on 17 January, according to the announcement, she had infected with the new coronavirus variant discovered in the UK. In the latest wave of COVID-19 since April, Vietnam has . [16] From 1 April, Vietnam implemented a 15 days nationwide lockdown. By mid-June, this cluster was determined to be under control after 26 days without new cases in the community. [139], On the same day, the Vietnamese Acting Minister of Health Nguyn Thanh Long ordered the city authorities to suspend all international flights at Da Nang International Airport. On 27 May, the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control requested a suspension of foreign arrivals into the city and imposed social distancing from 31 May. . [312] On the same day, Nng officially allowed the services industry to reopen, with restaurants and bars re-opening after nearly half a year of closure. In addition, many workers share means of transport and live together in crowded hostels, which are the main factors allowing the disease to spread more easily. On 28 November, sample was taken from the flight attendant for the third time and showed positive results for SARS-CoV-2. 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. This is the largest bus station in Ho Chi Minh City in terms of the number of passengers transported each year and in terms of daily bus traffic. As of 19 May, the city had isolated all of the positive patients and their close contacts. As a result, the number of deaths fell to less than 20 cases each day, especially in Ho Chi Minh City.[316]. Mon 14 Dec . Throughout his journey, he had made contact with several other people. [160] On the same day, the Ministry of Health announced that Ho Chi Minh City had 1 new case of COVID-19, patient 912, a Chinese man who crossed the northern border illegally into Vietnam. [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. [263], Deputy Minister of Health Nguyn Trng Sn said just on 25 May, the number of COVID-19 cases recorded in Bc Giang was 375, three times higher than the previous record of the province's number of cases. More than 143,000 workers have returned to Ho Chi Minh City, ng Nai to work. The number of cases began to increase rapidly after the couple selling milk tea in Th Du Mt City tested positive in mid-June. Vietnam's pandemic lockdown has been so long I've lost my sense of time. 5 was discharged on 3 February, fully recovered and after testing negative for the virus. Both patients are treated at the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Hanoi. linear. 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. All the 305 passengers from this flight were quarantined upon the arrival in Tra Vinh (147 people), Vinh Long (137 people), Can Tho (17 people) and Ho Chi Minh City (4 people). 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". [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. The clusters related from the city of Da Nang includes H Nam province, New Phuong Dong discotheque, AMIDA salon then spread to many provinces. [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. [261], On 8 May, the province confirmed a case was a female worker at Sin Young Vietnam factory located in Vn Trung Industrial Park, Vit Yn district - the province's largest industrial park where hundreds of thousands of workers come to work every day. 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. 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. One person in close contact with these people also gave a positive result in Ho Chi Minh City. A man living in an area under lockdown receives food through a barricade during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam July 20, 2021. This is the 17th case in Vietnam. Two days later, China puts Wuhan under strict lockdown. At the end of May, Bc Giang established its largest field hospital located at the province's public stadium. Nine people in close contact with this female student were quarantined. In response to this, the city People's Committee implemented Directive 10 on 20 June. [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. [31][32] This is one of the most serious outbreak due to slow tracing process, mismanagement in quarantine facilities and people starting to ignore lockdown rules after long period of restrictions. Data from the Chicago Department of Public Health reported by the Chicago Tribune shows that despite being about 30% of the total population, Black people account for 68% of the COVID-19 related deaths in Chicago and are dying of COVID-19 at a rate nearly six-times greater than that of White Chicagoans, who account about 33% of the population and They belonged to the same training team with the previous confirmed cases of three (cases #3-through-5). After tracing, infected cases were found scattered in all communes and towns. According to the WHO, to prepare for a worse situation, the country had built 30 more field hospitals with a scale of 1,500 ICU beds and 30,000 non-ICU beds. [72], On 1 February, a 25-year-old woman (#6) was declared coronavirus-positive in Khnh Ha Province. 17 was infected to seek healthcare in her home country. 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. People over 65 years old accounted for roughly 48% of fatalities; 5056 years old accounted for 36%; 1849 years old accounted for 15%; and those aged 017 years old accounted for 0.42%. [108], On 11 March, Vietnam confirmed their 35th case of COVID-19, a 29-year-old woman who works in an electronics supermarket in Da Nang, and had physical contact with two infected British tourists. The source of infection of the first case has yet to be identified. From January 2021, foreigners will not be allowed to enter Vietnam to ensure safety for the major political event of the country, the 13th National Congress of the Communist Party. As of June, there have been cases of COVID-19 in every areas in the province and spreading to other localities.[254][255]. [222], As Cambodia entered the third wave of infection, Vietnam in March recorded a rapid increase in the number of imported cases in the border provinces. [272] The first case was recorded on 3 May 2021 and the source of infection is unknown. ", "Ba ngi Vit Nam nhim vim phi V Hn", "Bnh nhn nhim virus corona u tin xut vin", "Vietnam declares novel coronavirus epidemic", "Qung Ninh ng ca cc im xut hng trn tuyn bin gii gip Trung Quc", "Ngi dn ln Mng Ci sang Trung Quc c yu cu quay v", "Dng ton b chuyn bay gia Vit Nam v Trung Quc t chiu nay", "T 3/2, tt c ngi nhp cnh t Trung Quc v Vit Nam c cch ly", "Thm mt ngi Vnh Phc dng tnh nCoV", "Ba bnh nhn vim phi corona xut vin", "B gi Vnh Phc 3 thng tui dng tnh nCoV", "Ngi dn sng cch ly vng dch Vnh Phc ra sao? [186], On 2 January, Vietnam reported a detection of the UK variant of SARS-CoV-2 in a 45-year-old female, a resident of Tra Vinh province who returned from the United Kingdom on 22 December on flight VN50. [291], In addition, the city also detected 48 COVID-19 patients through screening at 30 hospitals and clinics. [144], On 26 July, Da Nang confirmed three more cases in community.