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On March 18th 2020, a 43- year-old British pilot in Vietnam, Stephen Cameron, was

diagnosed with Covid-19 and admitted to a hospital in Ho Chi Minh City.

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As the most critically ill patient in the country,  Cameron became a rallying point for the Vietnamese.

When news broke that his lungs were failing, more than 50

Vietnamese volunteered to donate their lungs, while health experts nationwide

were roped in as the country mounted an all-out effort to save him.

The government spent more than $200,000 on the Vietnam Airlines pilot and  he eventually defied the odds

avoiding a coronavirus death  and making a near full recovery.

He is just one of the many patients  to survive Covid-19 in the country

which has zero fatalities and a few hundred confirmed cases

in the first six months of the outbreak,  an impressive feat by all accounts.

When news of a pneumonia-like virus from across the border in China reached

Vietnam, the government immediately took the potential spread seriously,

anticipating that the country could have thousands of cases and framing the outbreak as a war.

Vietnam's government carried out its response in phases.

As early as January 10th, before the country had recorded its first case on January 23rd,

Vietnam started screening passengers from Wuhan, China.

Suspected cases were isolated while it ordered its 97- million strong population to wear masks,

going above and beyond the World Health Organization's advice.

I mean Vietnamese people, we were all anxious, even before there were cases in in Vietnam.

That is Ngoc Pham and her friend Kevin Moulié. Both live in Ho Chi Minh City in the south.

The government communicate with us very early on about what was happening in China

and that there were there was a high risk  that the virus might come to Vietnam.

We remember what happened with  SARS few years back,

People were aware of  possible consequences of the virus.

SARS, or the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, originated in southern China in 2003,

and quickly reached  Vietnam's shores in the same year.

In the later parts of the year,  Vietnam was battling another outbreak,

avian influenza, commonly  known as Bird flu.

When Vietnam recorded its first case of Covid-19 on January 23rd 2020,

On February 1st, it was one of the first countries to halt all flights from China,

and closed its 870-mile land border with its northern neighbor on the same day.

The next phase of the government's strategy  centred on increasing testing capacity,

communication to the public,  and stepping up its quarantine efforts.

Between January and May the country would  increase its testing sites from 2 to 63 ,

enabling it to conduct more than 260,000 tests.

Moreover those who tested positive and their immediate contacts were

quarantined in military-run camps, field hospitals and university residences.

I think that mass quarantine in military camps  is one of the elements that makes Vietnam a success.

because it's easier to control  people when you put them in one area.

Nguyen Linh is an analyst who has studied  the Vietnam government's response to Covid-19.

Because of the form of society and  the government in Vietnam, It was able to do that.

Perhaps the most unorthodox  strategy employed by the government,

was a remake of a Vietnamese song, 'Jealous', created to encourage hand-washing and general hygiene.

I think it's a good way to, yeah, to reach out  to people and make people sensitive about the topic.

And they played the song everywhere. So in the elevators, in hallways...

Despite testing aggressively and a communication and quarantine strategy at the start,

the country still recorded a jump in the number of new cases.

After recording only 16 cases in the first month of the outbreak, the second wave

in Vietnam occurred on March 6th  with another 254 cases by May 1st.

As the numbers surged, the government declared  that the country was in an epidemic and

implemented a nationwide lockdown. Until May 1st, around 200,000 people were quarantined.

If you compare the public health system in Vietnam to other countries in southeast Asia,

I think Vietnam still has a big room  to improve in terms of public health or treatment.

The most important measure  in this case is isolating people,

like a movement restriction and  the government did a great job in that.

On January 20th the Ministry of Health also designated 22 hospitals to treat Covid-19 patients.

This ensured that other hospitals were not overwhelmed.

Of its first 328 cases,  90% had recovered.

But some experts have questioned  the reliability of its data,

especially since the country is a one-party state  and has a tight control over the media.

Some people may question whether we are seeing the right number of cases, the right number of deaths.

What do you say to  people who say that ?

Vietnam's government, they have been pressuring companies like Facebook, YouTube, Google

to remove some anti-government content but I think this time in terms of the Covid-19,

the level of transparency we have seen from  Vietnam's government is pretty much unprecedented.

And the country appears  to be  on a path to recovery,  much faster than its neighbors.

It was among the first countries to ease social distancing measures and to reopen its economy.

In fact, the government allowed the first chartered flight from Japan at the end

of June after suspending travel in March. Between April and June 20th its economy

grew unexpectedly by 0.36% while the government  has a target of 5% growth for the rest of the year.

For many life even  appears back to normal.

Yet Ngoc and Kevin don't see the reopening as a return to their old lives, but rather a

We measure that there are so many more important stuff in in life such as

health as we say family and also friends because in situation like this,

We're just so anxious all the time. I think it's so important to have people to rely on.

Now you realize that you're not  you're not young, and

your parents are not young either and they're getting very old and they're they're

always they will be in the high-risk. I text some friends saying okay if your

building is locked down you can ask me to come and deliver food for you and

then they also said the same so thank God, you have your friends when you don't have your family here.

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