The first cases, likely the source of the outbreak linked to the mission, showed symptoms on 13 May. 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). [110], On 12 March morning, Vietnamese Ministry of Health reported the 39th case of the country. [16] From 1 April, Vietnam implemented a 15 days nationwide lockdown. 34, case No. [182], On 9 December, following the instructions of the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City, the HCDC had conducted random COVID-19 testing at Mien Dong Coach Station to ensure that no infections are missed in the community. As of 21 August, the infection chain related to Th Quang fishing port and at the quarantine areas in Sn Tr recorded 1,124 cases while Ha Cng market chain is at "very high risk" with 699 patients. [194] In the noon of 28 January, the country reported 84 new cases in Hai Dng and Quang Ninh, being the highest number of new cases in a day. [92], On 25 February, the 16th was released from the hospital after being tested negative from the COVID-19, temporarily made Vietnam cleared from COVID-19 outbreak. The numbers of cases and deaths are reported on a government website updated daily during the pandemic. [95], On 6 March night, Hanoi urgently announced a new case of coronavirus, the first one found in the capital of Vietnam. ", "Ba ngi Vit Nam nhim vim phi V Hn", "Bnh nhn nhim virus corona u tin xut vin", "Vietnam declares novel coronavirus epidemic", "Qung Ninh ng ca cc im xut hng trn tuyn bin gii gip Trung Quc", "Ngi dn ln Mng Ci sang Trung Quc c yu cu quay v", "Dng ton b chuyn bay gia Vit Nam v Trung Quc t chiu nay", "T 3/2, tt c ngi nhp cnh t Trung Quc v Vit Nam c cch ly", "Thm mt ngi Vnh Phc dng tnh nCoV", "Ba bnh nhn vim phi corona xut vin", "B gi Vnh Phc 3 thng tui dng tnh nCoV", "Ngi dn sng cch ly vng dch Vnh Phc ra sao? All recent cases were people who had been infected abroad and who had been placed in government quarantine facilities after arrival in Vietnam. 5 was discharged on 3 February, fully recovered and after testing negative for the virus. Many returned from various countries, including Britain, Malaysia, and France; which were at the time severely hit by COVID-19. The five largest of them were the one in the northern province of Bc Ninh and Bc Giang, the central region city of Nng, the Christian mission in Ho Chi Minh City and at a major hospital in Hanoi. [125][126] On 22 April, People's Committee of ng Vn District decided to lockdown Dong Van town for six days after confirmed the first cases in the province on 16 April. Border forces have increased their number of troops and continuously patrolled to prevent illegal border entrants. Along with that, Vietnam started its mass COVID-19 vaccination campaign on the next day.[35][36]. [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. As of August 2021, there were more than 200,000 cases in the community just in Ho Chi Minh City and 100,000 cases in other southern and central provinces related to the city. Vietnam says all its infected patients cured", "No Italian immigration stamp found in 17th COVID-19 patient's passports", "H Ni c 1 ca dng tnh nCoV, l ca th 17 Vit Nam", "Cch ly hng trm ngi lin quan 'bnh nhn 17', "H Ni cch ly khu ph c ca nhim nCoV", "Nhiu gia nh mua tch tr lc na m", "Thm hai ngi dng tnh nCoV ti H Ni", "Bnh nhn th 31 nhim virus corona Vit Nam", "Thm 5 ngi Bnh Thun dng tnh nCoV", "Thm 4 ngi nhim nCoV ti H Ni, Qung Ninh, TP HCM", "Saigon mosque closed after followers' contact with Covid-19 patient", "Ninh Thun phong ta khu dn c Vn Lm 3", "Ninh Thuan man confirmed 67th COVID-19 patient", "Cch ly ti nh, bnh nhn th 100 mc Covid-19 vn i l 5 ln/ngy", "Thm 14 ngi mc Covid-19, c nc c 113 bnh nhn", "Chiu nay khng ghi nhn thm ca nhim nCoV", "Vit Nam lin tc khng c ca COVID-19 mi, nhng ngi dn khng nn ch quan", "Bnh nhn Covid-19 th 22 ti dng tnh li m tnh sau khi v Anh", "Phong to ton b Th trn ng Vn -H Giang phng chng dch COVID-19", "Ngi khi bnh Covid-19 qua i v x gan", "Bnh nhn H Nam cht v x gan, khng phi do Covid-19", "Vietnam Airlines Grows Domestic Network After Full Restoration Of Flights", "Chu u mong Vit Nam ni li chng quc t", "Japan charter flight leaves for Vietnam", "New York Times: 'Phi cng Anh l biu tng chng Covid-19 Vit Nam', "B gi 5 tui t Nga v dng tnh nCoV", "Ngi nghi nhim nCoV tng n ba c s y t", "Bnh nhn nghi nhim nCoV Nng tr nng", "Dng n chuyn bay quc t n Nng", "Xt nghim Covid-19 din rng ti Nng", "Ngi nghi nhim Nng c khng nh mc Covid-19", "Vietnam confirms first case of Covid-19 community transmission in 100 days", "Thm 21 ngi Trung Quc nhp cnh tri php", "Thm mt ngi Nng, mt ngi Qung Ngi nhim nCoV", "Thm 5 ngi Nng, 2 ngi Qung Nam nhim nCoV", "Bn ca nhim nCoV H Ni, k Lk, TP HCM", "26 ca nhp cnh, 11 ngi trong nc nhim nCoV", "Vietnam, Which Avoided Coronavirus for 99 Days, Records First COVID-19 Death", "Vietnam health ministry reports second COVID-19 death", "Hng qun H Ni dng vch ngn phng Covid-19", "Cuba tng Vit Nam thuc tng khng Covid-19", "Bnh nhn Covid-19 t vong trc khi khng nh dng tnh", "TP HCM sp xt nghim xong ngi v t Nng", "Trc k thi, Khnh Ha r sot gio vin l ngi thn ca bnh nhn 751", "H Ni, Hi Dng tm ngi n nh hng Th gii b ti", "TP.HCM lo ngi pht sinh dch COVID-19 t nhng ngi nhp cnh tri php", "Ngy u tin sau mt thng khng ghi nhn ca nhim nCoV", "Dch COVID-19: Chuyn gia vo Vit Nam ngn ngy khng phi cch ly tp trung 14 ngy", "Vietnam requires seven-day centralized quarantine for foreigners as it resumes flights", " xut m 6 ng bay thng mi quc t", "Angola returnee Vietnam's latest Covid-19 patient", "Hi Phng phong ta khch sn lin quan n ca nghi mc COVID-19 khi nhp cnh Nht Bn", "152 trng hp F1 Hi Phng lin quan ca nghi nhim Covid-19 u kt qu m tnh", "Kt qu xt nghim 343 ngi TP HCM tip xc chuyn gia Hn Quc nghi mc Covid-19", "BN1342 - nam tip vin Vietnam Airlines vi phm quy nh cch ly, ly COVID-19 cho ngi khc", "Xut hin ca nghi mc Covid-19, TP HCM khn trng khoanh vng dch", "192 ngi TP HCM tip xc gn 'bnh nhn 1347', "Hai ca nhim mi trong cng ng ti TP HCM", "Thm hai trng ng ca v gio vin tip xc bnh nhn Covid-19", "Hng lot trng Si Gn 'ng ca' chng Covid-19", "H Ni yu cu ngnh y t 'bo ng ' phng dch Covid-19", "Tt c ngi lin quan 4 bnh nhn Covid-19 u m tnh", "Khng coi TP HCM l dch m la ni ly nhim t bn ngoi", "TP. Of Vietnam's nearly 16,000 COVID-19 fatalities . [200], On 15 February, Hanoi CDC recorded one case was a deceased 53-year-old Japanese expert, his body was found inside Somerset West Point hotel room. Published 13 Oct 2021 Vietnam Coronavirus Ho Chi Minh City and the wider south in Vietnam finished its 24-hour-a-day Covid-19 lockdown of three months last week, allowing people to venture out to buy food rather than wait for soldiers to coordinate deliveries to their homes. [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. Meanwhile, on the other side of the globe, the U.S. sees its first case of the disease . Throughout the pandemic, Bnh Dng detected 46 clusters, mostly from the infection chain in Ho Chi Minh City with the Delta variant. Of the 699 cases related to the market, 217 are traders, 37 are buyers and 445 close contacts. timeline by Michael Safi. Basically under control. The epicenter was in Hai Duong, this local outbreak accounting for nearly 80% of the total number of cases. Wuhan, China, in December 2019, can be transmitted from human to human. [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. Was the most dangerous and the reason for most of the cases in Vietnam's northern localities. [296], Bnh Dng cluster: Since the fourth wave of COVID-19 broke out, the total of cases in this local is over 16,000 (11% of total cases in Vietnam), mainly in hostels, companies and industrial parks. As a result, the Ministry of Health identified Kien Giang as a high-risk locality, especially the border area in Ha Tien town. FIGURE 1 Figure 1. [159], On 14 August, the Vietnamese government decided to isolate Hi Dng city for 15 days after four residents tested positive, none of whom had travel history to Da Nang. On 14 June, the hospital lifted quarantine after 37 days and resumed its medical activities. Thun Thnh District was the first cluster in the province with 591 cases, the outbreak in here have been contained. [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. [174] On the same day, the HCDC confirmed one more case, an English teacher (friend of patient 1342) living in District 6. "The rate of close contacts (who used to be negative) becoming positive is very high. Later, when testing this patient's family members including father, mother and younger brother, the results were also positive. As of 19 May, the city had isolated all of the positive patients and their 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 . Most of the newly discovered cases are the people who previously identified as close contacts. In Ho Chi Minh City, after 4 months of applying strict "social distancing" measures to curb the pandemic, the city eased restrictions from the evening of 30 September 2021. [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. This raises concerns about an outbreak from people who entered illegally into the city area. [104], On 9 March evening, a 49-year-old British man was tested positive (case #31) and put into quarantine in Qung Nam Province, previously on the same flight with patient number 17. This outbreak started in Hai Duong from a person who was found positive after entering Japan, and the true source of the infection is unknown. Research and data: Edouard Mathieu, Hannah Ritchie, Lucas Rods-Guirao, Cameron Appel, Daniel Gavrilov, Charlie Giattino, Joe Hasell, Bobbie Macdonald, Saloni Dattani, Diana Beltekian, Esteban Ortiz-Ospina, and Max Roser. This group of people was tested twice by Hanoi CDC. ", "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. - Tui Tr Online", "Bnh nhn th 16 nhim virus corona xut vin hm nay", "Coronavirus miracle? After diagnosing him with pneumonia, the doctors took samples for testing for COVID-19, and got a positive result. [268][269][270] On 3 August, the provincial government removed the last quarantine zone in L Nhn District. As of June, there have been cases of COVID-19 in every areas in the province and spreading to other localities.[254][255]. Particularly at Shin Young, the first infected company in Vn Trung industrial park, the rate was 79%. All three cluster related to Hi Dng and Qung Ninh. The number of isolators concentrated in the province is 303 people. Vietnam's strict lockdown to curb its fourth wave of Covid-19 infections has left many unable to work, go out to get food, or even get oxygen Individuals and up to 90 community groups and. The second patient was a 31-year-old staff at the Van Don International Airport in Qung Ninh, this airport has served many repatriation flights amid the pandemic. Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom (2023) Therefore, according to the Department of Health, pathogens came from dormitories to companies and factories, then from workers spread to other dormitories, forming large outbreaks. 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. 09 DEC 2022. The first one was a 33-year-old Japanese businessman who had been working in Hai Phong since June. Passengers must provide COVID-19 negative certificate issued by the host country within three days before boarding. The majority of cases are in the province are came from the UK strains. 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. The next day, she was sampled and tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. [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. After seven days of extensive testing, the health sector recorded an additional 388 positive cases residing in two alleys 328, 330 and other nearby apartments. This is the second time Ho Chi Minh City cancelled the fireworks to ensure safety from COVID-19. The patient was discharged from Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City a few days later. Ministry of Health of Vietnam (Chart from Vietnam Ministry of Health). The health ministry has also allowed mild COVID-19 cases to have their treatment time shortened and be discharged early, which also helps lighten the load. Qu V cluster recorded 127 cases, source of transmission was identified mainly from Qu V Industrial Park. [168], As of 28 October, Vietnam has not found any new cases of community transmission. [218] On Lunar New Year's Eve 12 February, all provinces and cities stopped firing fireworks and New Year festivals to limit crowds (except for Hanoi still had one fireworks display spot at Thng Nht Park, instead of 30 as planned). That was from the test result of nearly 2,500 samples taken in quarantine areas in the province. [170] After being informed about the case, the Hai Phong Department of Health isolated 152 close contacts and quarantined the hotel he had stayed. [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. Around 1.8 million of 98 million people, or 1.8 per cent of the country's population, have been fully vaccinated, one of the lowest rates in the region. Another cause for the rapid spread of the disease in industrial zones, according to the leaders of Bc Giang province, is the Provincial Management Board of Industrial Parks and the Department of Health was too slow when detect and isolate infected workers at the beginning, especially at the outbreak in Vn Trung industrial park. 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. [224] According to the city's health department, the tests will be conducted first in residential areas in Nam Tu Liem district and An Khanh Industrial Zone in Hoai Duc district on 11 March and 12 March. [119] On 22 March, another case also related to the Islamic activities is a fellow Muslim who returned from Malaysia also attended in the same Sri Petaling mosque, before went back to Vietnam and still did Islamic praying five times a day in Jamiul Anwar mosque, despite being asked to quarantine at home. Directive 10 mandates that non-essential business services, spontaneous marketplaces, and public passenger transportation must be halted and no more than three individuals may gather in public spaces with the minimum distance of 1.5 meters. 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. When he arrived at Kansai International Airport, he was tested by PCR and on 5 October the result came back positive. The source of infection of the first case has yet to be identified. [158], On 7 August, an officer of the 377th Air Defence Division tested positive and the local health officials immediately quarantined 14 close contacts. Vietnam Calls in Army, Introduces Strict Lockdowns in COVID-19 The quarantine of Son Loi village was scheduled to last 14 days. [81][82], Later on 4 February, the 10th case was identified. Ho Chi Minh City, which ranked third in the country at the time, had over 1,500 cases. COVID-19 pandemic in Vietnam - Wikipedia [64] Vietnam Ministry of Health issued two hotline numbers for information on the coronavirus disease, and advised citizens to contact the nearest healthcare center if they had its symptoms. On 30 November, after patient 1347 tested positive, the HCDC put him and the mother in quarantine at the City Children's Hospital. After managing to contain COVID-19 for much of last year, Vietnam has recorded 348,000 infections and 8,277 fatalities, with the majority recorded since late April. As the delta variant of COVID-19 has surged through Vietnam over the past two months, the country's central provinces have endured the strictest lockdown measures to date. [59], In March 2022, Prime Minister Phm Minh Chnh declared COVID-19 to be "endemic" and considered ending daily reporting of new cases. From the initial 10 cases, as of 24 May, nearly 60 more cases have been recorded in the hospital. [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. Case No. Vietnam Locks Down Hanoi For 15 Days As COVID-19 Cases Rise [41][42] On 28 July, the National Assembly gave the central government in Hanoi mandate to implement emergency measures for curbing the pandemic locally. Enterprise-managed quarantine was abolished after one person quarantined at a Vietnam Airlines facility spread COVID-19 to the community. But after half a month the outbreak still showed no signs of stopping, so on 15 February, entire province of Hai Duong was locked down for 15 days while Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City stopped all entertainment activities across the city. This is the ninth I've been stuck in Vung Tau, a seaside resort more than 1,500 kilometers (900 miles) from my home in Hanoi. Vietnam's pandemic lockdown has been so long I've lost my sense of time. New daily cases have surpassed 10,000 and deaths are being reported in hundreds. Vietnam: Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City: HCMC), Nhan Tran & Phu My (since 2005) . Matt Hancock joked about travellers 'locked up' in hotels during Covid Mr Hancock and top civil servant Simon Case joked about travellers 'locked up' in quarantine hotels during Covid lockdown The health secretary said the Government should 'get heavy with the police . Vietnam to ease nationwide coronavirus lockdown | Reuters [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. [127], On 24 April, two more cases were confirmed: both were Vietnamese students who came back from Japan and quarantined on arrival. They have all tested negative for the virus, the HCDC announced on 7 December. Many patients are infected with the Delta variant so their close contacts quickly become positive. This is a dangerous cluster because the patients have been infected for a long time, have moved to many places and came into contact with many people. [129][130], On 15 May, Vietnam confirmed 24 new cases, all of them from a repatriating flight from Russia and quarantined after arrival in Thai Binh and Quang Ninh, raising the total number of COVID-19 cases to 312. Chairman of the People's Committee of Nng L Trung Chinh signed a decision to extend the time of social distancing and asked people to self-isolate themselves until 26 August. "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. This case is a 29-year-old tour guide in Hanoi, who had contact with patient number 24 during a trip to Ninh Binh. However, the number of daily new COVID-19 cases in the city showed no sign of decreasing. In some localities, the epidemic was spread by long-distance drivers. [225][226] People in other districts will be tested from 15 to 19 March. 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[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. , however, the rate of people receiving two doses was just about 0.5%.[314][315]. The second is from "patient 16052" in ng Ha town and the third is from "patient 15541" who used to be treated in H Ch Minh City. Vietnamese and Chinese border forces have set up nine joint teams to prevent cross-border crimes and illegal immigration.[231]. [298] The Department of Health of Bnh Dng province said that among the current outbreaks, the most dangerous clusters is the one in Tn Phc Khnh ward, Tn Uyn town and at the company in Bnh Chun ward, Thun An City. In Hanoi, the authorities also requested suspension of unnecessary mass gathering events. This marked a major change in the country's approach to COVID-19,[53][54][55] forcing Vietnam to accelerate its vaccination campaign to control the pandemic. Key lockdowns and measure introduced during the Covid pandemic between March 2020 and December 2021. 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. Vietnam: Coronavirus Pandemic Country Profile - Our World in Data Tens of thousands of workers in motels such as My in 1, My in 2, and My in 3 in Nnh town, Vit Yn district, have been quarantined due to some worker live there infected with COVID-19. But after half a month the number of cases still showed no signs of stopping, so on 15 February, entire province of Hi Dng was locked down for 15 days while Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City stopped all entertainment activities. Expect for the four localities including: Hi Dng City, Kinh Mn town, Cm Ging and Kim Thnh District still have to follow social-distancing order until 17 March. [68] His father, who was the 1st COVID-19 patient in Vietnam, was discharged on 12 February. Basically under controlled as of July 2021. This man has passed the Moc Bai border gate and may contacted with some Cambodians. 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. The number has since jumped to nearly. Frontiers | COVID-19 Timeline of Vietnam: Important Milestones Through Authorities are investigating whether this case related to the previously discovered patient in Da Nang one day earlier. [219], On 2 March, both Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City were allowed most non-essential services to reopen except bars, dance clubs, karaoke parlors, gyms and pool table. In Ch Ha, the death of a prisoner from COVID-19 has sparked a prison riot. 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. At the end of June, the outbreak in Bc Ninh was brought under control, there are three main clusters include: K Hospital (National Cancer Hospital) cluster: The source of infection is from the NHTD cluster. However, the deputy director of Chuong My District Medical Center mistook the number of people with negative test results. 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). Five days after the initial three cases, the city recorded another 133 cases in 21 of the city's 22 districts. In only two weeks, Cambodia had 4,832 new cases, mainly in the community. [151][152] On the same day, the first two deaths due to COVID-19 occurred in Vietnam: patient 428 and 437, two elderly 70 and 61 years old man respectively, who appeared to have contracted the virus in Da Nang.