Swiss media spotlights Vietnam’s success in COVID-19 fight
The website Watson.ch of Switzerland has run an article emphasising that information transparency and the people's unity have contributed to Vietnam's success in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hanoi (VNA) - The website Watson.ch of Switzerland has run an articleemphasising that information transparency and the people's unity have contributedto Vietnam’s success in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
Throughout the article, the author repeatedly quoted Peter Jenni, who lived inVietnam for many years, to make it clearer and more convincing for thementioned issues.
The article said the initial situation was bad for Vietnam as it shares a long border with China wherethe coronavirus disease first broke out, and Chinese are among the largestgroups of tourists to Vietnam.
However, with the four on-the-spot measures it took to combat thedisease, Vietnam has become one of the model nations in this fight.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO),Vietnam has so far only had more than 300 cases of COVID-19, with zero fatalities.The country has gone through over 60 straight days without new infections inthe community, while imported cases were immediately quarantined for 14 days uponarrival.
The article identified four reasons for the success of Vietnam in containingthe pandemic, saying that the Vietnamese government quickly introduced control measuresright after the first cases were discovered.
Vietnam was the first country to apply massquarantine after China, it said.
The article quoted Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc assaying that the Vietnamese Government was ready to accept some economic lossesto protect its people's lives.
There was hardly a country that pursued contact tracing more vehemently thanVietnam, it said.
According to the article, Vietnam provided clear and transparent informationrelated to the disease situation through daily press conferences.
Newspapers, social media, and even phone messages wereused for this purpose, it said.
Measures taken by the Government were trusted and strictly observed by the people,it noted, saying that the spirit of solidarity was one of the reasons behind Vietnam’ssuccess in controlling the pandemic./.
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COVID-19 testing (Photo: VNA) 
