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the system. I don’t want to use the word “collapse.”</p><p id="2b48">Assessing the circumstances, the government has had to take those measures. Right after discovering an area where there was an infected person, the government will lock down such a site. Everyone in such a place will be tested periodically. Once the situation in that place is controlled, the daily routine will come back. There are no exceptions.</p><p id="a0c6">For Vietnamese citizens residing offshore who wish to come back to Vietnam (like me, after graduating LL.M. in the Netherlands), the government will arrange flights to pick them up when Vietnam closes the border with other countries. Vietnamese citizens need to register with the embassy in the country they are residing and wait to confirm that they are selected for a flight. There are no exceptions.</p><p id="a92a">Recently, Vietnam has started to open commercial flights with several countries in Asia. There are also some flights on which the foreign professionals can board to enter Vietnam for working purpose. But, all passengers will have to comply with the mandatory quarantine requirement of the government. There are no exceptions.</p><h1 id="22a1">What does Vietnam achieve?</h1><p id="3450">Thanks to that, everyday life in Vietnam has come back quickly. Although we cannot avoid some pandemic impacts (e.g., a few restaurants have to close permanently, or no international travel), the “tempo” of life in Vietnam is the same. It is like the pandemic never has an impact on the country.</p><p id="99c5">Vietnam has no infected cases in public from August to date. There are still a few positive cases being discovered during this period. Yet, all of them are from people who immigrated to Vietnam and were found during the mandatory quarantine time.

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</p><p id="1b45">Everyday life has come back. People eat out. The street is full of people again — restaurants and shops open as if there has never been a pandemic in Vietnam.</p><p id="af30">About the economy, Vietnam climbs to the 4th position of the most growing countries in Southeast Asia. Despite the pandemic, Vietnam’s economy still shows positive signs with increased foreign investment in Vietnam. Some large corporations are considering moving their factories to Vietnam for manufacture.</p><h1 id="66d1">Why should other countries have done the same?</h1><p id="1603">The world is facing the resurgence of the pandemic. And it is worse than the first wave in March. A series of new records of positive cases have been updated daily. In some countries, the number of new positive cases is four or five-fold the previous wave (sadly, the Netherlands is one of them).</p><p id="f61a">It is not to blame any countries for their policies. Each country has its reason and policy to fight against the virus. But, if they take a more severe measure from the beginning, the situation may not be too bad. There will not be the second lockdown in several countries if governments assess the pandemic’s danger correctly.</p><p id="23e9">Vietnam can “overreact” to the pandemic, as some people mentioned before. It can affect human rights when the local authority isolates the whole building because there is a positive case tested. But, if Vietnam doesn’t do that, and the pandemic spread to the public with hundreds or thousands of new positive cases per day, Vietnam’s healthcare system will be overloaded.</p><p id="2ce8">Each country has its reason for its measure to prevent the pandemic. And those measures are the most appropriate things the Vietnamese government can do.</p></article></body>

Why is Vietnam strict with the Covid-19 pandemic?

Vietnam chose the “overreaction” measure to be successful in fighting the pandemic.

Mandatory quarantine upon arrival. Limited international flights. The requirement of wearing masks. Vietnamese citizens in other countries need to wait for a government’s flight to return to the home country.

They are all measures the Vietnamese government is imposing to control the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic.

And the truth is the Vietnamese government is doing well. It has been three months since the last day when Vietnam discovered a positive case infected in public. After that, all new positive cases in Vietnam came from people who immigrated to Vietnam, not from the inside.

Many people have questions on how a small country like Vietnam can control the virus that is damaging the whole year of 2020 in other continents. Some foreign journalists came to Vietnam to discover the truth and tried to find if the government was hiding anything.

And, there was no untruth being found. The only truth is that the government has taken significant measures to make sure that Vietnam will avoid the spread of the pandemic.

Why does the government have to do that?

It is simple. With the current healthcare system, the spread of the pandemic will, for sure, damage the system. I don’t want to use the word “collapse.”

Assessing the circumstances, the government has had to take those measures. Right after discovering an area where there was an infected person, the government will lock down such a site. Everyone in such a place will be tested periodically. Once the situation in that place is controlled, the daily routine will come back. There are no exceptions.

For Vietnamese citizens residing offshore who wish to come back to Vietnam (like me, after graduating LL.M. in the Netherlands), the government will arrange flights to pick them up when Vietnam closes the border with other countries. Vietnamese citizens need to register with the embassy in the country they are residing and wait to confirm that they are selected for a flight. There are no exceptions.

Recently, Vietnam has started to open commercial flights with several countries in Asia. There are also some flights on which the foreign professionals can board to enter Vietnam for working purpose. But, all passengers will have to comply with the mandatory quarantine requirement of the government. There are no exceptions.

What does Vietnam achieve?

Thanks to that, everyday life in Vietnam has come back quickly. Although we cannot avoid some pandemic impacts (e.g., a few restaurants have to close permanently, or no international travel), the “tempo” of life in Vietnam is the same. It is like the pandemic never has an impact on the country.

Vietnam has no infected cases in public from August to date. There are still a few positive cases being discovered during this period. Yet, all of them are from people who immigrated to Vietnam and were found during the mandatory quarantine time.

Everyday life has come back. People eat out. The street is full of people again — restaurants and shops open as if there has never been a pandemic in Vietnam.

About the economy, Vietnam climbs to the 4th position of the most growing countries in Southeast Asia. Despite the pandemic, Vietnam’s economy still shows positive signs with increased foreign investment in Vietnam. Some large corporations are considering moving their factories to Vietnam for manufacture.

Why should other countries have done the same?

The world is facing the resurgence of the pandemic. And it is worse than the first wave in March. A series of new records of positive cases have been updated daily. In some countries, the number of new positive cases is four or five-fold the previous wave (sadly, the Netherlands is one of them).

It is not to blame any countries for their policies. Each country has its reason and policy to fight against the virus. But, if they take a more severe measure from the beginning, the situation may not be too bad. There will not be the second lockdown in several countries if governments assess the pandemic’s danger correctly.

Vietnam can “overreact” to the pandemic, as some people mentioned before. It can affect human rights when the local authority isolates the whole building because there is a positive case tested. But, if Vietnam doesn’t do that, and the pandemic spread to the public with hundreds or thousands of new positive cases per day, Vietnam’s healthcare system will be overloaded.

Each country has its reason for its measure to prevent the pandemic. And those measures are the most appropriate things the Vietnamese government can do.