Vietnam among best countries in battling COVID-19: Lowy Institute
Vietnam is among top countries and territories that proved the most successful at containing the pandemic, announced a report unveiled on January 27 of the Lowy Institute, an independent think-tank in Australia.
Sydney (VNA) – Vietnam is among top countries and territories that proved the mostsuccessful at containing the pandemic, announced a report unveiled on January27 of the Lowy Institute, an independent think-tank in Australia.
Researchers at thethink-tank collected data from various countries and territories to create aninteractive to gauge the relative performance at different points in thepandemic. Figures were calculated for the following indicators of confirmedcases, rates of death and test.
New Zealand topped therankings, followed by Vietnam, Taiwan (China) and Thailand.
On the other hand,developed nations like the US, the UK and France and countries with a largerpopulation were classified as worst-performing. The UK came at the 94th place amongalmost 100 surveyed countries and territories while Indonesia and India ranked85th and 86th, respectively.
The report pointed outthat smaller countries (with populations of fewer than 10 million people)proved more agile than the majority of their larger counterparts in handlingthe health emergency for most of 2020. Cyrus, Rwanda, Iceland and Latvia wereall in the top 10.
“In general, countrieswith smaller populations, cohesive societies, and capable institutions have acomparative advantage in dealing with a global crisis such as a pandemic,”according to the report.
The relatively‘low-tech’ nature of the health measures used to mitigate the spread of thevirus to date, including large-scale lockdowns, may have created a more levelplaying field between developed and developing countries in the management ofCOVID-19.
Despite this, theuneven deployment of the first vaccines against COVID-19 could give richercountries a decisive upper hand in crisis recovery efforts, and leave poorercountries fighting against the pandemic for longer, it warned./.
As the world struggles with surging COVID-19 cases, Vietnam, along with Taiwan (China) and Singapore, has succeeded in limiting local transmissions to almost zero, said Japan’s Nikkei Asia on January 6.
Vietnam has made an impression on the international community as a safe country with great economic potential, and its success in controlling the COVID-19 pandemic and maintaining economic growth has been miraculous, a Japanese expert has said.
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In his article, Oscar Sanchez Serra highlighted President Ho Chi Minh’s founding of the Thanh Nien (Young People) newspaper on June 21, 1925, which marked the birth of Vietnam's revolutionary press rooted in a bold and far-sighted vision.
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The article stressed that throughout his revolutionary career, the founder of modern Vietnam consistently regarded the revolutionary press as a vital part of the Vietnamese Party’s and nation’s revolutionary struggle.
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In the today context of socio-economic development and growth, the professionalism of Vietnam’s revolutionary journalists continues to rise, guided by exemplary mastery of new information technologies and the modernisation of their founding principles to preserve the enduring values of revolutionary journalism.
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This follows Telegram’s serious failure to address the content that has been repeatedly reported to them, despite various efforts of negotiation and cooperation made by MCMC, it said.
Testing for COVID-19 in Vietnam (Photo: VNA) 
