Washington D.C. (VNA)🌌 - Vietnam has takendrastic measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and these have helpedenhance the country’s prestige in the international arena, according to anarticle in the Wall Street Journal.

"The country of more than 95 million people has lessthan 300 cases and no deaths," it underlined. The daily quoted Julien Brun, Managing Partner at multinationalconsulting firm CEL in Ho Chi Minh City, as saying that Vietnam has been a leadingchoice of global manufacturers diversifying operations outside of China. Even though garment and textile firms in Vietnam aregrappling with an array of order cancellations due to the pandemic, in the longrun production in other fields could be shifted to Vietnam, the article said. Quarantining has had an important role to play incontaining the spread of the outbreak in Vietnam. “Tens of thousands of people were quarantined in State-runfacilities and entire villages were locked down in response to even smallclusters of infection,” the article stated. Nearly 45,000 people were sent to concentratedquarantine areas in early April and this figure has now fallen to 11,000. “Three months after its first case was detected, Vietnamappears to have beaten back the virus, at least for now,” it continued. Stores and restaurants re-opened on April 23 as theGovernment eased social distancing measures after three weeks. Some high-risk areas, however, remain under lockdownand gatherings of more than 20 people are prohibited in major cities, it noted./.