- Title
- Rapid impact assessments of COVID-19 control measures against the Delta variant and short-term projections of new confirmed cases in Vietnam
- Creator
- Nguyen, The-Phuong; Wong, Zoie; Wang, Lin; Thanh, Truc; Nguyen, Huy; Gilmour, Stuart
- Date
- 2021
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/188502
- Identifier
- vital:17277
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.7189/JOGH.11.03118
- Identifier
- ISSN:2047-2978 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- As of 2020, the cumulative number of COVID-19 cases recorded in Vietnam was less than 1500, proving the success of COVID-19 control in Vietnam [1]. Vietnam has been recognized as one of the few countries that successfully controlled COVID-19 in 2020 [2]. Several recent articles have summarised a set of lessons learned, the so-called “Zero-new-case-approach”. These included (i) a rapid and coordinated public health response with a decentralized health care system [3]; (ii) massive quarantine and targeted lockdown; (iii) third-degree contact tracing; (iv) centralized patient management; (v) early school closures and robust border controls; (vi) mask policies and 5K message (5K refers to use face masks in public places, disinfect regularly, keep distance, stop gathering, and make health declaration); and (vii) innovative mass testing strategies in the resource-constraint system (sample pooling strategy of PCR test with 2-7 swaps) [4], These “Zero-newcase-approach” strategies all focused on the non-pharmaceutical aspect of disease control. They aimed to maintain zero community transmission by establishing a comprehensive public surveillance system and enacted drastic measures with the support of the police and military forces. © 2021 THE AUTHOR(S) JoGH 2021 ISoGH
- Publisher
- University of Edinburgh
- Relation
- Journal of Global Health Vol. 11, no. (2021), p.
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Rights
- Copyright © 2021 The Author(s)
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- COVID-19; Humans; SARS-CoV-2; Vietnam
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