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Key Population Program Implementation Guide. Resource Guidelines, January Resource Publications, December Vietnam strictly forbids cyberattack behavior targeting organizations and individuals in any form," Foreign Affairs Ministry deputy spokesman Ngo Toan Thang said at an online press meet. Since late March, more than 46, Vietnamese people have been flown back to the country on repatriation flights from various parts of the world. According to the airline statement, the Airbus A will fly directly from Noi Bai International Airport to the city of Bata for more than 12 hours, then stop picking up passengers and refueling for 3 hours, then return to Vietnam.
The aircraft is expected to land at Hanoi at on 29 July. On the plane, there are 2 doctors and 2 nurses of the Hanoi National Hospital of Tropical Diseases to promptly provide emergency and support to the patients. Health authorities also arrange a variety of medical equipment to support passengers. Medical stretchers are mounted on aircraft, providing emergency aid for serious patients. The Asia Times reported that "A number of Vietnamese hotels and guesthouses have reportedly hung signs on their doors saying that Chinese guests are not welcome, while many Vietnamese have gone online to demand the closure of all border crossings with China.
Not only with the help of the government, many sponsors have provided food and water to the poor with many positive actions such as "rice ATMs" and free supermarkets. This assistance has contributed greatly to helping the society most vulnerable. In addition, he also handed over a m2 supermarket for use as an isolation area. According to Deputy Chairman of the State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Luong Thanh Nghi, as soon as the epidemic broke out in China and some countries in the Asia-Pacific region, the Vietnamese community was living, studying and working in Eastern Europe have donated and transported nearly 80, medical masks, hundreds of sterile water bottles, protective clothes and medical gloves to support Son Loi commune, Vinh Phuc province and a number of hospitals in Hanoi to prevent and fight epidemics.
Although the authorities have put in place mandatory measures to prevent the spread of disease, there are some people still escaping the quarantined area or dishonest reporting about their symptoms, these actions caused serious consequences to the public. This lack of responsibility has caused many people to be infected, making hundreds of people in the neighborhood and a hospital placed under quarantine, putting stress on the city health system.
Anger was also reported due to the increasing number of the infected cases coming from the Muslim community returning from Malaysia following their attendance of the Tablighi Jamaat festival in Sri Petaling mosque, and two to three patients did not obey the self-quarantine law in Vietnam and still attended Islamic events in Ho Chi Minh City, leading to fury and demands to imprison the Muslim population, even among Vietnamese celebrities. They will be probed on charges of violating bidding regulations causing serious consequences, an offence that can fetch jail terms of up to 20 years.
When being informed about the isolation for monitoring by local authorities, some people in the group refused. They were temporarily kept at the Da Nang Lung Disease Hospital before boarding a flight sponsored by the Vietnamese government back to South Korea the following day.
After receiving complaints from few South Korean about the quarantined area, YTN has broadcast a controversial news report that Korean citizens are being "detained" under poor conditions. Accordingly, the people who appeared in the video said that even without any symptoms of coronavirus, they were still "detained" in a locked room, and not provided with adequate meals. Notably, this news also criticised the small isolation room, containing people. Immediately after broadcasting and posting the news video on YouTube, YTN received a backlash from Vietnamese netizens.
Some people demanded the news agency to apologise for posting false information. Under pressure from netizens, on 2 March, on their official website, YTN News had to publish an apology about the incident. In the statement, YTN stressed that they would continue to tell the truth and protect South Korean citizens, but at the same time be more careful with broadcasting style to avoid misunderstandings, especially regarding cultural differences.
Even in comparison to other commended examples like South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan, Vietnam, before experiencing second wave, had experienced a much lower number of cases and deaths [10] [] [] — an achievement recalling the success in when Vietnam became the first country to be cleared of the SARS outbreak. Due to its inability to conduct mass testing like South Korea, Vietnam implements a strict day quarantine policy, and traces people exposed to the virus up to the fourth level of contact. For example, in early April, 45, people were ordered to quarantine for only infected people.
Whenever a small cluster of infections emerged, the entire village or city was sealed off from the outside world. Vietnam also has a strong surveillance culture with neighbours who will inform their local police if they suspect any misconduct. Analysts indicate transparency as the key difference between pandemic management in Vietnam and in the neighboring China, despite their similar communist institutions.
Most international experts present in Vietnam refute skepticism and accord high credibility to statistics provided by the Ministry of Health. As a country with political institutions quite similar to China, Vietnam has long been considered to be a lot more open than China in terms of media censorship and information control.
Facebook is especially widely used and serves as a giant platform for people sharing information as well as expressing criticism, directly or indirectly, of government policies. Anecdotally, some scholars were seriously criticized when they proposed that face masks were unnecessary and coronavirus was not as dangerous as seasonal influenza in the United States. However, Vietnam also received criticism for its response from anti-communist overseas Vietnamese , who accused the government of not being pro-active enough and censorship. It was later denied by the Vietnamese and Chinese governments as misleading.
The Agence France-Presse also condemned the footage as fake. Some critics of the government have been arrested for allegedly spreading false information and political criticism about the government actions on coronavirus pandemic. During those two months, police took action against cases of distributing fake news and sanctioned people. He also thanked Vietnam for resuming the export of rice, helping rice importing countries including small countries in the Oceania-Pacific region to ensure their food demand.
Chilean Ambassador to Vietnam Jaime Chomali said Vietnam has recorded only few new infections although having high population which showed that its efforts have produced persuasive outcomes. He feels confident in Vietnam's rapid economic recovery than that of other regional countries. In a statement published on its Facebook page on 14 April, the Federal Foreign Office showed appreciation and gratitude for the reactions of the Vietnamese government and people of Vietnam in supporting the European country's efforts in combatting COVID Two governments agreed to continue working closely in strengthening exchanges and cooperation across all fields.
Abe affirmed Japan will continue offering the second support package to help Vietnam cope with the disease and assist the country in economic growth. Prime Minister of Russia Mikhail Mishustin agreed with the Vietnamese government to continue facilitating trade between the two countries amid the pandemic. South Korean President Moon Jae-in highly valued the measures taken by the Vietnamese government in containing the pandemic and affirmed that South Korea was ready to share experiences and cooperate with Vietnam in fighting the pandemic and protecting the population.
Gareth Ward, British Ambassador to Vietnam expressed his thanks for the support of the Vietnamese government for the British repatriation flight and the medical supplies to aid the UK in combating the pandemic. Like most of the world's economy, Vietnam was hit hard by the outbreak because of the slowdown of private and national industries, the downturn of stock exchanges, and the lower number of incoming tourists, making hundreds of thousands people struggling to find jobs and are relying mostly on unemployment benefits to survive.
Despite the deceleration in economic activity and the downside risks posed by the pandemic, Vietnam's GDP growth rate is still to remain one of the highest in Asia-Pacific Region , according to Asian Development Bank report. Vietnam Industry Agency says industry manufacturing processing is in short supply of raw materials and components mostly imported from Japan, China, South Korea leads to the risk of stopping many factory operation.
In the first five months 26, companies suspended their business. In the worst-case scenario, the number of workers affected by the pandemic could rise to 7. Stores across Vietnam quickly sold out of surgical masks and hand sanitisers after the initial cases of coronavirus were reported.
This followed a similar trend in many other Asian countries. Tourism industry is the most severe affected, Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam said the aviation industry is in the worst situation in 60 years of development. Of the Vietnam registered aircraft, more than were grounded while airlines still have to spend hundreds millions dollars to maintain operations such as: aircraft leasing cost, paying for employee, aircraft maintenance and apron parking fee.
According to the General Statistics Office, in August only over 16, foreigners came to Vietnam, mostly experts coming to work. Since 25 July when the second wave arose, many localities have to closed tourist attractions and deployed measures to curb the spread of infections within the country. Tourism revenues for the first eight months reached VND The tourism sector served 3.
On 14 February, the Ministry of Health reported that schools would remain closed until the end of February, after which schools would close nationwide. The nationwide school closure decision was issued together with a nationwide quarantine order on 31 March, which went into effect 1 April.
As a matter of fact, Vietnamese students will not to go to school at first semester on — academic year, so schools are slowly adopting online teaching. The test will divided into two specific phases, first phase take place from 8 to 10 August for the least affected provinces.
The second phase take place on 3 and 4 September at 11 exam councils, with the participation of more than 26, students, mostly in the coronavirus epicentre in central Vietnam, along with others quarantined for having close contact with confirmed COVID cases. The outbreak also forced the V. League 1 to be delayed to 7 March until further announcement, which affected the preparation of Vietnam national football team for the upcoming World Cup qualification.
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