This raises concerns about an outbreak from people who entered illegally into the city area. [121], On 26 March, 12 more cases were confirmed. [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. Pages for logged out editors learn more. 10. 5 was discharged on 3 February, fully recovered and after testing negative for the virus. 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. After tracing, infected cases were found scattered in all communes and towns. logarithmic. [313], Ph Th cluster: Since 13 October, the northern province of Ph Th has recorded 292 cases in the community from two clusters in Lam Thao - Chu Hoa, Bach Hac - Phu Ninh. This outbreak started in Hai Duong from a person who was found positive after entering Japan, and the true source of the infection is unknown. [19] Vietnam began loosening restrictions in May, including resuming domestic travel across the country. All recent cases were people who had been infected abroad and who had been placed in government quarantine facilities after arrival in Vietnam. [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 epicenter was in Hai Duong, this local outbreak accounting for nearly 80% of the total number of cases. [11] On the afternoon of 20 March, the Ministry of Health announced 2 new COVID-19 patients, the 86th and 87th, who were two female nurses at Bch Mai Hospital with no history of contact with any COVID-19 patients. The first human cases of COVID-19 were identified in Wuhan, China in December 2019. [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. However, the number of daily new COVID-19 cases in the city showed no sign of decreasing. [277], In July 2021, Trn c Phu, an advisor to the Vietnam Public Health Emergency Operations Center, said that "the outbreak [in Ho Chi Minh City] remains complicated". The next day, the director of the hospital ordered COVID testing for all employees, workers, patients and family members at its two facilities. The second patient was a 31-year-old staff at the Van Don International Airport in Qung Ninh, this airport has served many repatriation flights amid the pandemic. Vietnam entered a nationwide lockdown on April 1. The local authorities decided to quarantine o L Commune to prevent the spread. Upon arrival in country, the flight crew members were quarantined in a quarantine facility of Vietnam Airlines in Ho Chi Minh City. 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. [106] Later that day, another British man was found infected with the virus (case #33), who was on the same flight with case No. Two days later, all 152 test results came back negative. [233] Kien Giang province has developed a plan to establish a 300-500 beds field hospital in Ha Tien City, and establish a treatment area for severe COVID-19 patients at Ha Tien City Medical Center. According to ng Thp Department of Health, the first patient is female, living in Tn Khnh Trung commune, Lp V district. With this large number of samples, Vietnam's Minister of Health Nguyn Thanh Long has directed the medical staff to switch from pooled testing using RT-PCR to rapid testing to stamp out the epidemic faster. The number of deaths from 300 to 350 per day went down to more than 200. 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. [79], After 3 February, everyone entering from China to Vietnam must comply with the 14-day epidemiological check-up and health-monitoring procedure to ensure that the COVID-19 epidemic does not getting worse. 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. [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. [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. The clusters related from the city of Da Nang includes H Nam province, New Phuong Dong discotheque, AMIDA salon then spread to many provinces. The Cambodian government has lockdown the capital Phnom Penh and many of its provinces from 15 April. Due to the wide range of people he contacted, it raised the fear of the patient being a super spread patient. Source of infection for the first case who works at the company remains unknown. 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. 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. [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. She had flown back to Vietnam in a private jet with quarantined cabin after becoming aware that case No. [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. 09 DEC 2022. [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. He had returned to Vietnam from Japan via Nng International Airport on 7 April. [87], On 10 February, three more cases: #4, #5 and #9 were declared to be recovered. Vietnam: Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City: HCMC), Nhan Tran & Phu My (since 2005) . The numbers of cases and deaths are reported on a government website updated daily during the pandemic. [84], On 7 February, Vietnam confirmed their 13th case, a 29-year-old worker, a member of the same training crew as the 5 previously confirmed cases (case #3,4,5,8,9). Later, when testing this patient's family members including father, mother and younger brother, the results were also positive. [145][146], Four days later, the country confirmed dozens of cases in five cities and provinces all related to Da Nang. The days recorded high numbers of cases such as: 30 June (81 cases), 1 July (90 cases), 4 July (87 cases), 5 July (114 cases), 6 July (92 cased) and 7 July (140 cases). This is like "an exercises" for the Vietnamese medical system in order to prepare and study the new virus. [59], In March 2022, Prime Minister Phm Minh Chnh declared COVID-19 to be "endemic" and considered ending daily reporting of new cases. Meanwhile, on the other side of the globe, the U.S. sees its first case of the disease . [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. [113][114], On 14 March 6 cases were announced (numbers 48 to 53). Was the most dangerous and the reason for most of the cases in Vietnam's northern localities. 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 . This is the main reason why patient 1498 are allowed to end the quarantine period before the second test results are available. As of August 2021, there were more than 200,000 cases in the community just in Ho Chi Minh City and 100,000 cases in other southern and central provinces related to the city. One person in close contact with these people also gave a positive result in Ho Chi Minh City. [177] Eight primary, secondary, and high schools closed,[178] 12 universities have been closed since 2 December until further notice, consequently approximately 8,200 pupils, 160,000 university students and 6,000 lecturers are off from schools and universities, all school exams, meetings, conferences, out-door activities have been cancelled or postponed, three residential areas with 148 households and 485 people are on temporary lockdown. [8] The Vietnamese government immediately locked down Bnh Xuyn District until 4 March 2020 to prevent the disease from spreading all over the country, the first large-scale lockdown outside China. [75][76][77][78], On 2 February, a Vietnamese American (#7) got infected with coronavirus, due to two-hour layover in Wuhan airport during his trip from the US. The outbreak in here and related restrictions on movement have impacted its manufacturing-led economy, forcing the closure of factories. [282], Christian mission cluster: The cluster at Revival Ekklesia Mission had more than 520 cases in H Ch Minh City and six other provinces. A Covid-19 victim is laid to rest in a graveyard in Comas, Peru, on June 1. Vietnam's Covid-19 hotspot Ho Chi Minh City has twice extended its lockdown, hitting manufacturers trying to export items such as clothing; An economist said the fourth wave is more devastating . [122], From 17 to 23 April, no new cases were confirmed. 34, case No. [88], The 15th case was identified on 11 February, a 3-month-old grandchild of case No. The epicenter was in Da Nang, the source of infection may be from Hospital C in the city. [72], On 1 February, a 25-year-old woman (#6) was declared coronavirus-positive in Khnh Ha Province. . [90] 10,600 villagers were divided into groups of 5060 households each, each group assigned to a supervision team responsible for daily household visits and health-checks. 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. When total cases reached a few thousands per day, the Central government decided to lock down the entire Southern Region with 35 million people, along with the capital, Hanoi, to contain the spread. [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. [299][300], Ph Yn cluster: Ph Yn is the central region province recorded the fastest infection rate, just from eight cases on the morning of 24 June, after 14 days the number of cases increased to 359, of which one person died. Chu Thnh is the province's hot spot with 103 cases, of which the highest concentration of cases is in An Hip and Tn Nhun ng communes. However, the deputy director of Chuong My District Medical Center mistook the number of people with negative test results. Targeted lockdowns in Vietnam between February and April, 2020 Mass Gathering, Travel, and Mobility Restrictions The authorities already took all the samples, and had the results of about two thirds of cases. [12] In March and April 2020, the number of cases increased rapidly due to the large number of people coming from European countries and the appearance of clusters such as Bch Mai Hospital, Ha Loi Commune in Hanoi and Buddha Bar in Ho Chi Minh City. The epidemic has spread to 20/25 provinces and cities of this country. The source of this case has not been identified so far. [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. [129][130], On 15 May, Vietnam confirmed 24 new cases, all of them from a repatriating flight from Russia and quarantined after arrival in Thai Binh and Quang Ninh, raising the total number of COVID-19 cases to 312. FIGURE 1 Figure 1. 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.