The world noticed Vietnam’s success in combating COVID-19 in 2020 as other countries struggled to quell infections and enact clear government policy. While Vietnam is experiencing its largest surge of cases yet, the government maintains a strong concerted effort to stop the virus. The Vietnamese government, unified by a single political party, the Communist Party of Vietnam, was successful in keeping infections very low among its 97 million citizens with the kind of predominantly preventative, low-cost public health strategy prioritizing contact tracing and targeted quarantine that most other countries failed to implement.
Vietnam – An ideal public health model? Vietnam’s state-led, preventative, low-cost response to COVID-19 (Emma Willoughby, Brookings)
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