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From 25 July to 15 December (144 days) an additional 992 NCs were reported-equivalent to 6.89 NCs/day on average, in contrast to the 2.24 CCs/day in previous periods (184 days with 413 CCs). As of 15 December, the whole country had recorded 35 deaths and 1405 CCs.

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This marked the beginning of period V, with complicated and unpredictable developments in terms of both the pandemic and social safety due to a series of Chinese people entering Vietnam illegally through border roads and waterways. With CC number (#) 416 on 25 July, the 100-day series of COVID-19 non-infectiousness in Vietnam was terminated. Within the scope of this study, the CCs and policy responses and actions put in place to minimize infection and spread over the initial six-month term from 23 January to 24 July were gathered, analyzed, and assessed. The overview was divided into four periods: I (23 January–5 March), II (6–19 March), III (20 March–21 April), and IV (22 April–24 July). In this study, we offer an overview of the pandemic prevention and control in Vietnam, which was successful and effective, up to 24 July. As of this date, 99 days in Vietnam had been spent without any NCs infected from the local community. Only 48 cases were being treated (11.62%).

In contrast, no one had died due to COVID-19 in Vietnam, and the number of recovered cases (RCs) had reached 365 patients (88.38%) of the total of 413 CCs, as of 24 July. COVID-19 deaths also reached a peak on 24 July of 9753 deaths since a record high of 9797 deaths on 30 April. The date of 24 July also marked the day with the highest number of new cases (NCs) in the past six months (284,196 NCs). Compared to the number of CCs on 30 January, the 24 July number had increased 1956.63 times over nearly six months. Globally, as of 24 July 2020, the COVID-19 coronavirus had spread in 213 countries and territories, with 15,296,926 CCs and a death toll of 628,903 individuals. Just 18 days later, on 30 January, in the first report on the epidemic situation, the World Health Organization (WHO) claimed that there were a total of 7818 global confirmed cases (CCs) with the majority coming from China, and only 18 cases from 18 other countries. The first confirmed case (CC) of the COVID-19 disease outside of China appeared in Thailand on 13 January 2020. By emphasizing diversification of the policy responses, from the agencies to the tools and measures, the case study reviews and shares lessons from the successful COVID-19 prevention and control in Vietnam that could be useful for other nations. This paper synthesizes eight solution groups for these four anti-pandemic phases, including outbreak announcements and steering documents, medical measures, blockade of the schools, emergency responses, border and entry control measures, social isolation and nationwide social isolation measures, financial supports, and other measures. The pandemic policy response over the first six months in Vietnam were divided into four periods, I (23 January–5 March), II (6–19 March), III (20 March–21 April), and IV (22 April–24 July). Parallel to the daily occurrence of 2.24 new cases, 5.13 new policy documents were issued on average per day over the study period. The findings show that the Vietnamese policy system responded promptly, proactively, and effectively at multiple authority levels (33 different agencies from the national to provincial governments), using a range of policy tools and measures. This study assessed the policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Vietnam from the early days of the outbreak in January 2020 to 24 July 2020 (with a total of 413 cases confirmed and 99 days of no new cases infected from the local community) by synthesizing and evaluating 959 relevant policy documents in different classifications. This result is derived from a harmonious combination of many factors, with the policy system playing a key role. With prompt and drastic measures, Vietnam is one of the few countries that has largely succeeded in controlling the outbreak.

The COVID-19 pandemic has become one of the most serious health crises in human history, spreading rapidly across the globe from January 2020 to the present.