The Cambodian government has lockdown the capital Phnom Penh and many of its provinces from 15 April. 5, tested positive; the 14th case. [116][117][118] Subsequently, a new-found case connected with the man were also discovered the following days. According to the WHO, to prepare for a worse situation, the country had built 30 more field hospitals with a scale of 1,500 ICU beds and 30,000 non-ICU beds. The epidemic has spread to 20/25 provinces and cities of this country. As a first step, the administration of Ho Chi Minh City raised the anti-epidemic level on 31 May by putting G Vp District and Thnh Lc Ward in District 12 under lockdown and imposing social distancing for the other areas in the city. [80], On 34 February, Vietnam announced their eighth and ninth case: a 29-year-old female (#8) and a 30-year-old male (#9). The clusters related from the city of Da Nang includes H Nam province, New Phuong Dong discotheque, AMIDA salon then spread to many provinces. After nine days, the disease in here had spread to seven districts in Nng. Contribute to chinapedia/wikipedia.en development by creating an account on GitHub. 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). Hanoi has escaped the brunt of a fierce wave of coronavirus infections in Vietnam since late April, recording less than 50 of the more than 17,000 COVID-19 deaths nationwide, and just 4,414. [227], On the evening of 25 March, a Chinese man living in Thuan An City, Binh Duong Province took the COVID test to go to Cambodia, tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. [91], On 13 February, father of case No. [170] After being informed about the case, the Hai Phong Department of Health isolated 152 close contacts and quarantined the hotel he had stayed. But the country's cumulative cases. According to the results of gene sequencing published by the Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, the cluster recorded the appearance of the Indian variant B.1.617.2. [222], As Cambodia entered the third wave of infection, Vietnam in March recorded a rapid increase in the number of imported cases in the border provinces. So he signed an end of quarantine term with two negatives for all 89 people, instead of 84 people. 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The patient had previously gone to the hospital on 20 March to treat last stage of liver disease, before testing positive for COVID-19 on 7 April. According to WHO, to prepare for the worsening situation, the country has built more than 30 field hospitals with a scale of 1,500 ICU beds and 30,000 non-ICU beds. Of the 699 cases related to the market, 217 are traders, 37 are buyers and 445 close contacts. This person had gone to Hanoi and returned to Ho Chi Minh City on 29 April. [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. [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. During first 15 days of lockdown, the city set up 38 checkpoints surrounding G Vp, effectively controlling the infection chain linked to the mission, which had approximately 6 hundred cases. [96][97] Within the night, the government proceeded to track and isolate roughly 200 people who either had close contact, lived on the same street, or had been on the same flight VN0054 from London as patient No. [187] On 5 January, PM Phuc ordered to suspend flights from countries and territories infected with the new variant, the first two are South Africa and the United Kingdom. [59], In March 2022, Prime Minister Phm Minh Chnh declared COVID-19 to be "endemic" and considered ending daily reporting of new cases. At the same time, the province has completed the construction of the ICU sites with 158 beds. [142][143], After the case was confirmed, Prime Minister Nguyn Xun Phc ordered the Ministry of Public Security to investigate and deal with a crime ring that illegally trafficked foreigners into Da Nang and Quang Nam. 34, case No. Clusters have been found in industrial parks in Bac Giang province and then in at least ten major hospitals in the country. For the first 16 cases of the disease, the medical staff had to treat different types of patients, including infants, the elderly and people with underlying conditions. 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. [232] Authorities fear the cross-border transmission via illegal entrants will trigger a fourth wave in Vietnam. [293] After studying 62 infected employees of the Ho Chi Minh City Hospital of Tropical Diseases, the expert team concluded that their SARS-CoV-2 viral load was 251 times higher than Wuhan strain, but much lower than unvaccinated patients. ", "Vietnam PM warns of long coronavirus fight as crisis deepens", "HCM City, Hanoi accelerate testing, vaccinations against COVID-19", "Nhiu a phng ni lng gin cch, m li cc dch v", "Vit Nam pht hin ca nhim Omicron u tin", "Asia's COVID success stories become the world's worst hot spots", "Vietnam Mulls Shift to Covid Endemic Path as Virus Surges", "L do cha coi COVID-19 l bnh lu hnh", "Vit Nam cch ly hai bnh nhn b st nhp cnh t V Hn, Trung Quc", "Yu cu kch hot ngay trung tm phng chng dch khn cp bnh vim phi do virus corona", "Bnh nhn vim phi corona th hai TP HCM xut vin", "One of Vietnam's first confirmed coronavirus patients recovers", "40 i phn ng nhanh ng ph virus corona sn sng cho tnh hung xu nht - Bo Ngi lao ng", "3 ngi Vit u tin nhim nCoV i qua nhng u? When the virus was first identified in China in late 2019, lockdown seemed extreme. Nine people in close contact with this female student were quarantined. Pages for logged out editors learn more. This man has passed the Moc Bai border gate and may contacted with some Cambodians. Compared to the peak of the epidemic in AugustSeptember 2021 period, the number of severe cases decreased by two-thirds. He did not make a prediction about the epidemic in Ho Chi Minh City because of "many variables" and "the situation depends a lot on the implementation of epidemic prevention measures". The latter is often called a lockdown. Kien Giang has two land border gates, five seaports and two airports. 5 was discharged on 3 February, fully recovered and after testing negative for the virus. 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. Nguyn Th Mng Ngc, Director of the province's Department of Health, said the province has identified three main sources of infection. Over 3 hundred thousand workers in industrial parks and manufacturing areas were sampled. [278] The Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee in a meeting on 14 July recorded the number of COVID-19 deaths in the city in the fourth wave to 130, four times the number announced by the Ministry of Health. A 42-year-old female met and greeted with the case No. On the morning of 7 May, 10 people at K Hospital, Tn Triu Branch (Thanh Tr District, Hanoi) had positive results for SARS-CoV-2 including four patients and six patients relatives. "TP H Ch Minh phong ta thm 6 khu vc, tm dng cc hot ng khng cn thit, dng taxi, gii tn ch t pht", Dch TP HCM ly 4 chu k, xm nhp nhiu cng ty, khu cng nghip, S ca Covid-19 lin quan hi truyn gio ln hn 200, lan 6 tnh thnh, Nh my Khu cng ngh cao tng thm 119 ca nghi nhim, "5 nhnh ly nhim lin quan nhm truyn gio c kim sot", "Thm 31 nhn vin Bnh vin Bnh Nhit i TP HCM nghi Covid-19", "An observational study of breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant infections among vaccinated healthcare workers in Vietnam", "Mc Covid-19 sau tim vaccine: ti lng virus thp, hi phc nhanh", Qun 7 v huyn C Chi, TP H Ch Minh cng b kim sot c dch COVID-19, Ca nhim Covid-19 tng vt 5 tnh pha Nam. According to ng Thp Department of Health, the first patient is female, living in Tn Khnh Trung commune, Lp V district. Major cases were recorded at the Nidec Sankyo factory (238 cases),[290] Phm Ngc Thch Hospital, which was treating TB and HIV patients (25 cases), the Hc Mn wholesale market (58 cases), Bnh in market (56 cases) and Ch Ha Prison (81 cases). On 14 June, the hospital lifted quarantine after 37 days and resumed its medical activities. As of Tuesday, the. [83] Mother (49-year-old, #11) and younger sister (16-year-old, #12) of the case No. [112], On 13 March three more cases (numbers 45 to 47) were announced, related to case No. Chui ly nhim ch u mi khin Nng ko di cch ly, TP HCM sau hn mt thng p dng bin php chng dch, "TP HCM ' oxy' iu tr bnh nhn Covid-19". Both patients are treated at the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Hanoi. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. [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. [191][192], On 28 January, Vietnam Ministry of Health confirmed two community cases of COVID-19 in Hi Dng and Qung Ninh. Total Coronavirus Cases in Vietnam. The cause of death still unknown. [73] This case was discharged from the hospital on 4 February. The epicenter in the fourth wave, first case was detected in a Christian mission, then from mission members spread throughout the city and southern provinces of Vietnam. From December 2019, when an unknown virus was found in China, to the release of vaccines for Covid-19 - here are the points where momentum shifted . 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. BY KATHY KATELLA March 9, 2021. [232] Vietnam also donated $500,000 to Cambodia along with 800 ventilators, 2 million medical masks and 300,000 N95 masks. The first time, they tested negative for COVID-19. "From asymptomatic to severe: Delta variant wreaks havoc in mere hours - VnExpress International", "Th im iu tr F0 ti nh TP HCM t ngy 16/8". This is the 17th case in Vietnam. ", "Dch COVID-19: Bc Ninh v Bc Giang d kin quay li trng thi "bnh thng mi" t 10/7", Chiu 3/5, thm 10 ca mc COVID-19 trong cng ng ti H Nam, Vnh Phc, H Nam pht hin 4 ca dng tnh SARS-CoV-2 lin quan dch L Nhn, "Khu vc c dch COVID-19 cui cng H Nam c d b phong ta", 7 ca mc Covid-19 Nng lm cng thm m vin AMIDA. Key lockdowns and measure introduced during the Covid pandemic between March 2020 and December 2021. This case was treated at the NHTD from 24 April. 7 dch COVID-19 ti Vit Nam ang nhng u? [122], From 17 to 23 April, no new cases were confirmed. Everyone entering country must be isolated for at least 14-day at the government's quarantine facilities, only special diplomats identified as such by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would be exempt. [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. This is one of the biggest aid from Vietnam to another countries in prevention against COVID-19. This was the first new case after the city went four months without confirmed cases from community transmission. At the meeting, it was announced that the newly discovered positive case was directly related to patient 1342 announced on 29 November. [88], The 15th case was identified on 11 February, a 3-month-old grandchild of case No. At the time of the outbreak, the rate of adults receiving one dose of vaccine was over 85% [173], On 30 November, the Ho Chi Minh City Center for Disease Control (HCDC) announced one case tested positive for COVID-19, a 63-year-old female in Hc Mn District (mother of patient 1342), without confirming the case. People over 65 years old accounted for roughly 48% of fatalities; 5056 years old accounted for 36%; 1849 years old accounted for 15%; and those aged 017 years old accounted for 0.42%. Nearly 5,000 of them are from Vietnam's largest metropolis, southern Ho Chi Minh City, which has also extended its lockdown until Aug. 1. [70][71] Case No. After tracing, infected cases were found scattered in all communes and towns. [281] On 24 August, the Ho Chi Minh City Military High Command worked with the People's Committee and finished preparing 10 hectares of land with 5,000 graves and an additional 5 hectares for mass burial if the crematoriums in the city were overloaded. At the end of May, Bc Giang established its largest field hospital located at the province's public stadium. [156], On 6 August, Vietnam confirmed its tenth death, the first to be diagnosed as having COVID-19 after death. Most of these are related to a single Hi Dng migrant worker, who was diagnosed with the UK coronavirus variant by Japanese authorities after arriving in Osaka on 17 January. Qu V cluster recorded 127 cases, source of transmission was identified mainly from Qu V Industrial Park. [26][27] Sporadic community infections continue during November and December, causing public scare and heightened measures. [89] This case also marked the 10th case found in Vinh Phuc and prompted Vinh Phuc province leadership to implement quarantine of the at-risk village named Son Loi with more than 10,600 people, activating mobile food shops and handing out free masks to all villagers, in an effort to contain the spread of the virus. More than 25,000 close contacts identified and tested. During the three days from 22 to 25 May, the medical authorities has focused on large-scale testing in high-risk areas, so the number of COVID-19 cases increased very quickly. Bc Ninh cluster: Directly related to NHTD cluster with 1,725 cases. [66], On 29 January, the Ministry of Health established 40 mobile emergency response teams, on stand-by to assist affected locations, for quarantining, disinfecting, and transporting patients or suspected patients. [272] The first case was recorded on 3 May 2021 and the source of infection is unknown. Initially, the lockdown was set for 15 days, but it was extended to 21 days in 28 out of 63 provinces. The disease prevention in the locality is difficult because the province has many industrial parks, hostels with a large number of workers from all over the country come here every day. Aside from cases related to flight VN0054 and patient 34, there are 3 unrelated cases: A Vietnamese came back from Paris, a Vietnamese overseas student who has been travelling across Europe, and a Czech national. [39][40] On 26 July 2021, for the first time in the country's disease prevention history, Ho Chi Minh City imposed a daily night curfew beginning at 6:00pm. 3 (25-yr-old female) was quarantined and cured in Thanh Ha Province, while the other two cases (#4: 29-yr-old male; #5: 23-yr-old female) were hospitalised in Hanoi. [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. These people also attended a wedding on 30 April in Mo in commune and this wedding turned into a superspreading event (SSEV). [128], A previously discharged patient in H Nam was pronounced dead on 4 May, later confirmed to have died from liver failure and not COVID-19. On 4 January, after completed isolation, his samples were taken for a second test, and without waiting for results, this person was released from the facility. Related to the illegal entrants from Laos. The first human cases of COVID-19 were identified in Wuhan, China in December 2019. [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. The first patient was a 34-year-old woman working for Vietnam Poyun Electronics in Hi Dng, she had come into close contact with another female worker who had been confirmed positive when arriving in Japan on 17 January. [193] On the same day, the Japanese authorities announced the RT-PCR results of the 32-year-old girl imported from Vietnam on 17 January, according to the announcement, she had infected with the new coronavirus variant discovered in the UK. May 25, 2021, 6:33 pm SGT HANOI (REUTERS) - Vietnam widened lockdown measures in its industrialised north on Tuesday (May 25) to combat its biggest Covid-19 outbreak so far, as the. Those routes has hundreds of buses going to Lng Sn and the southern provinces stop to pick up passengers every day. [123][124] However, there were reports of cases who tested positive again after being discharged. . [17] On the same day, former Prime Minister Nguyn Xun Phc announced the nationwide outbreak of COVID-19. This person was hospitalized at Sa c General Hospital from 10 June due to an abscess in the shoulder. [135][136], By the end of July, Vietnam had gone more than three months without new COVID-19 cases from local transmission. [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. Patient #2857 is a hotel receptionist who was infected by Indian experts quarantined at the hotel in Yn Bi Province since 18 April. The study also found that a highly transmissible variant, along with a poorly ventilated atmosphere and the failure to wear a mask in the office made it easier for the virus to spread among these people. After this period of time, if a person tests negative for the coronavirus, they can remain in Vietnam. This article documents the chronology and epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the coronavirus disease 2019 ( COVID-19) and is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, in March 2023. "The city has prepared for an emergency situation, if the full capacity of these hospitals is used, Can Tho will be able to receive and treat about 1,200 cases of COVID-19", Nguyen Phuoc Ton - Deputy director of the Department of Health of Can Tho said. In Vung Tau city, 70 kilometres. Basically under controlled as of July 2021. [94], On 3 March, after 20 days without new case of coronavirus, Son Loi village was approved to remove quarantine. The first cases discovered in Ho Chi Minh City were two people from Wuhan (China), the disease then spread in 13 other localities. Thus, except for the infection from the activities of the mission, the risk of infection in workplaces is quite high, especially in a closed environment like an office building. During the end of June, on average around 194 cases were reported per day and mostly among the Quang Chu and Vn Trung Industrial Park workers who are in lockdown areas or have been in quarantine. One person in close contact with these people also gave a positive result in Ho Chi Minh City. All the 305 passengers from this flight were quarantined upon the arrival in Tra Vinh (147 people), Vinh Long (137 people), Can Tho (17 people) and Ho Chi Minh City (4 people). [110], On 12 March morning, Vietnamese Ministry of Health reported the 39th case of the country. One was a one-year-old boy in District 6. [179][180] After contact tracing for the latest four patients, the city has placed under supervision 861 close contacts (F1), 1,400 people exposed to F1 (F2) and 1,002 others. These cases came from small clusters, such as the one at the Hc Mn mechanical workshop, the Ehome apartment building, and the residential area in Th c, recently discovered in the community. [238], On 27 April, Vietnam confirmed one case in from community transmission. "Ho Chi Minh City has 1.6 million workers; if the disease is not well controlled, it will cause a health crisis," Minister Long emphasized. The numbers of cases and deaths are reported on a government website updated daily during the pandemic. - Tui Tr Online", "Bnh nhn th 16 nhim virus corona xut vin hm nay", "Coronavirus miracle? These people had previously received two doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. [249] Another notable feature of this wave is that because the disease had spread to many provinces in Vietnam, there were outbreaks in the same locality at the same time but from few another sources of infection, making difficult to trace and cut the chain of infection. [100], On 7 March afternoon, a 27-year-old Vietnamese was diagnosed with COVID-19 and moved into quarantine in Ninh Bnh Province for treatment, making this the 18th case. ", the representative of Bc Giang province's health department said. In some localities, the epidemic was spread by long-distance drivers. On the evening of 1 September, they began to evacuate people from the area. [167] On the same day, all 180 bars and discos in Ho Chi Minh City re-opened. Most of the newly discovered cases are the people who previously identified as close contacts. 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 . [109] Within the same day, 3 more case were discovered (#36-#38), all are related to patient number 34. The hospital imposed lockdown all of its medical staff, workers, patients and their relatives at three facilities. At sea there is also a patrol force consisting of nine ships and two boats of the Border Guard, Fisheries Surveillance, and Coast Guard. Thanh Xun Trung cluster:[305] This cluster started from the first two patients in alley 330 Nguyen Trai at the end of August. [292] Notably, when Ho Chi Minh City Hospital for Tropical Diseases tested RT-PCR for 887 employees on 13 June, it recorded 53 positive cases with COVID-19. Case #418, a 61-year-old man living in Hi Chu District, was in serious condition, and had to use a ventilator. [234], From 20 February to 22 April, about 1,300 people entered through Ha Tien border gate, including 31 cases of illegal entry. From the end of April 2021, Vietnam experienced "a fast-spreading outbreak" of more than 350,000 cases. From the initial 10 cases, as of 24 May, nearly 60 more cases have been recorded in the hospital. [61] However, in August, the Ministry of Health issued a recommendation to not declare COVID-19 endemic, and to instead shift the country's response from "prevention" to "stable management". [235], During an inspection of the epidemic prevention in Can Tho city on 26 April, the Ministry of Health requested the establishment of a regional field hospitals located in Can Tho to prepare all scenarios and resources to isolate and treat people entering the region from countries where the number of people with COVID-19 has been increasing. Vietnam: Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City: HCMC), Nhan Tran & Phu My (since 2005) . [294][295], On 2 September, District 7 and C Chi District declared that the epidemic in here was under control. [9] Having known cases early is one of the main reasons why Vietnam was successful in fighting the virus. [141] On 25 July, the Ministry of Health confirmed the case in Da Nang, ending 99 continuous days of Vietnam not confirming any local transmission cases. Full genome sequencing of the case revealed variant VOC 202012/01 that was reported from the UK, it was also discovered that this strain also had the D614G mutation, which is believed to spread rapidly in Da Nang 45 months ago. The second time, 84 negative samples returned on 3 January, 5 samples had no results. In ng Nai province, as of 15 October, about 82% of businesses have resumed operations. [48][49][50][51] In addition, gene sequencing results show that the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant is the dominant variant in this wave, especially among cases in central and southern localities of Vietnam. [107] Before the end of the day, the 34th case was identified, a 51-year-old businesswoman who had visited the United States, with a brief transit in Korea and Qatar during the trip.