[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. A few days later the reinforcement from the Command of Naval Region 5 of the Vietnam People's Navy has sent more ships to patrol key areas, using radar to detect any boats coming from Cambodia. These are the first two localities of Ho Chi Minh City successfully brought F0 out of the community, limited the number of new cases and have a high rate of COVID-19 vaccine coverage in the community. [183], On 26 December, a 32 years-old man known as patient 1440, live in Vinh Long Province has tested positive for the COVID-19 after illegally entering Vietnam. [65] Vietnamese doctors documented and reported the two cases to medical journal The New England Journal of Medicine, at that time this was the first concrete evidence to the scientific community about human-to-human transmission of the disease outside China. The health sector is investigating why this variant appeared in the city. Everyone entering country must be isolated for at least 14-day at the government's quarantine facilities, only special diplomats identified as such by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would be exempt. Vietnam has been slow to procure vaccines and until late April had. In the afternoon of 24 July, the man suspected of being infected with COVID-19 was suffering from acute and severe pneumonia and had to be supported by ECMO. 5 were also transmitted on 6 February. 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. [17] On the same day, former Prime Minister Nguyn Xun Phc announced the nationwide outbreak of COVID-19. Key lockdowns and measure introduced during the Covid pandemic between March 2020 and December 2021. Upon arrival in country, the flight crew members were quarantined in a quarantine facility of Vietnam Airlines in Ho Chi Minh City. [291], In addition, the city also detected 48 COVID-19 patients through screening at 30 hospitals and clinics. The disease prevention in the locality is difficult because the province has many industrial parks, hostels with a large number of workers from all over the country come here every day. After an investigation, 5 people who had had close contact with the patient were identified; none of them wore face masks. 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. Hanoi and other provinces also recorded infections related to this cluster. Of which, 42 clusters have not been controlled, including: 20 in the province, 10 directly connected with the outbreak in Ho Chi Minh City and 12 with unknown sources of infection (detected through rapid testing in medical facilities). On 23 May, the Hanoi Center for Disease Control announced a case positive for COVID-19 who was a student at Vinschool Primary School. HCMC has set up 96 injection sites in all of its districts and over 300 mobile injection sites in industrial zones. [85], Earlier of the same day, Vietnam declared to have successfully cultured and isolated the virus in the lab, one of the early countries to do this, along with Singapore, Australia, Japan and China. [citation needed], The country entered second wave of infection when the Ministry of Health announced the 416th case in Da Nang, which was the first case with an unknown source of infection in 99 days. About a third of Vietnam's 100 million people are already subject to lockdown orders. [88], The 15th case was identified on 11 February, a 3-month-old grandchild of case No. [236] According to the city Department of Health, there are currently 20 public hospitals and 24 non-public hospitals. 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. She has worked as a receptionist and had direct contact with the Chinese father and son (cases #12). [121], On 26 March, 12 more cases were confirmed. [145][146], Four days later, the country confirmed dozens of cases in five cities and provinces all related to Da Nang. The number of deaths from 300 to 350 per day went down to more than 200. Nine people in close contact with this female student were quarantined. Khng thng khng v: B trng Quc phng coi COVID-19 l k th hu hnh? "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. On 30 November, after patient 1347 tested positive, the HCDC put him and the mother in quarantine at the City Children's Hospital. More than half of Vietnam's people are currently under lockdown. Chu Thnh is the province's hot spot with 103 cases, of which the highest concentration of cases is in An Hip and Tn Nhun ng communes. [16] From 1 April, Vietnam implemented a 15 days nationwide lockdown. Peru has more than doubled its official death toll from the Covid-19 pandemic following a government review of the. 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. Two days later, China puts Wuhan under strict lockdown. In the past week, Vietnam's average new cases dropped by a third compared to earlier in the month when 14,000 were being recorded daily, the health ministry said. Ho Chi Minh City, which ranked third in the country at the time, had over 1,500 cases. [175][176], On 1 December, Ho Chi Minh City announced two more cases. From 26 June to 5 July, as the epidemic spread, the city continued to increase its capacity to half a million samples per day in order to test 5 million people in its districts and in Th c city. Five family members picked him up by car and returned to Ha Long were subsequently quarantined and had their samples taken. [43] On 20 August, Nguyn Thnh Phong was dismissed by the Politburo as chairman of the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City. Vietnam: Coronavirus Pandemic Country Profile. The first two confirmed cases in Vietnam, a Chinese man, born in 1954 and his son, were admitted to Cho Ray Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, on 22 January 2020. [268][269][270] On 3 August, the provincial government removed the last quarantine zone in L Nhn District. No cases reported for nearly two weeks. At the end of May, Bc Giang established its largest field hospital located at the province's public stadium. She was infected after contact with COVID patients from the K Hospital cluster. [83] Mother (49-year-old, #11) and younger sister (16-year-old, #12) of the case No. During the Christian mission outbreak, the health sector increased testing capacity to a hundred thousand per day. Due to their characteristics, industrial parks cannot shift to online work while ventilation conditions in many workplaces is limited. Through testing, 75 more positive cases were found, most of them were workers in the same factory with her. At Hosiden Company, the rate was 55%. On 14 June, the hospital lifted quarantine after 37 days and resumed its medical activities. After nine days, the disease in here had spread to seven districts in Nng. The first time, they tested negative for COVID-19. ", "Trong "tm dch" Sn Li trc gi G d b lnh phong ta, cch ly", Vic phn tuyn v phc iu tr COVID- 19 ca Vit Nam ph hp, hiu qu, Bc u xc nh ngun ly nhim chnh BV Bch Mai, "C bn kim sot c dch COVID-19 ti Bnh vin Bch Mai", "Bn trong thn H Li nhng ngy phong ta", Quc t nh gi Vit Nam phng chng i dch COVID-19 hiu qu, "Ngi nghi nhim Nng c ghi nhn l 'bnh nhn 416', "T 0h ngy 28/7, Thnh ph Nng bt u thc hin gin cch x hi trong vng 15 ngy", "TP.HCM, H Ni, k Lk ghi nhn 4 ca mc COVID-19, Vit Nam c 450 ca", "Bnh nhn Covid-19 th 2 ti Vit Nam t vong do sc nhim trng trn nn bnh l nng", "Bnh nhn COVID-19 th ba t vong ti Vit Nam", "Bn tin dch COVID-19 trong 24h: Cc dch trong nc c bn c kim sot, tip tc nng cao nng lc xt nghim SARS-CoV-2", "How Vietnam crushed its second coronavirus wave", "Nam gio vin ting Anh TP.HCM ly COVID-19 t ngi cch ly, B Y t hp khn", "NNG: Thanh nin TP.HCM dng tnh COVID-19, nhp cnh 'chui' cng bnh nhn 1440", "C gi Hi Dng Nht nhim bin th nCoV Anh", "Stay-at-home orders in Vietnam Covid-19 hotspot", "H Ni ng ca qun n ng ph, c ph t 0h ngy 16/2", "Vietnam records 40 new coronavirus cases as Hi Dng outbreak still hard to control", "L l, ch quan, nhiu on ng ngi vn i chc Tt TP Hi Dng", "Vietnam begins COVID-19 vaccinations after successful virus containment", "Vietnam defied the experts and sealed its border to keep Covid-19 out. [308][309][310], On 11 October, the Ministry of Health changed the criteria for assessing the level of epidemic, replacing the directives that were used before. [115], On 16 March, a new case was reported in Vietnam, known as the 61st patient. [147][148][149][150], On 31 July, Vietnam confirmed 82 new cases, including 45 cases in Da Nang, 20 cases in Hanoi, 8 cases in Quang Nam Province, 6 cases in Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province, and 3 cases in Ho Chi Minh City. [100], On 7 March afternoon, a 27-year-old Vietnamese was diagnosed with COVID-19 and moved into quarantine in Ninh Bnh Province for treatment, making this the 18th case. [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. [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. [279] Due to large number of patients, all close contacts of coronavirus cases are self-isolated at home to reduce the overload at local quarantine facilities. 09 DEC 2022. Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Vietnam. GitHub export from English Wikipedia. The program is implemented with 3 main activities, including: take samples for testing at home, providing medicine boxes and a number of health-promoting products, and at the same time supporting health counseling, provide food packages for infected people and their family members to stay at home, reducing the risk of spread. Mostly related to POYUN cluster. [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. [297], in Bin cluster: On 14 May, Nm P district, in Bin province recorded the first COVID-19 case, was a female employee working in a boarding school for ethnic minorities. Aside from cases related to flight VN0054 and patient 34, there are 3 unrelated cases: A Vietnamese came back from Paris, a Vietnamese overseas student who has been travelling across Europe, and a Czech national. This patient had previously been in Daegu for several days in February and, prior to testing positive, had already been quarantined along with all passengers on the same flight from South Korea since he re-entered Vietnam. Timeline of UK government coronavirus lockdowns and restrictions. Due to the wide range of people he contacted, it raised the fear of the patient being a super spread patient. [277], In July 2021, Trn c Phu, an advisor to the Vietnam Public Health Emergency Operations Center, said that "the outbreak [in Ho Chi Minh City] remains complicated". The clusters related from the city of Da Nang includes H Nam province, New Phuong Dong discotheque, AMIDA salon then spread to many provinces. [240], On 29 April, the Ministry of Health confirmed 45 new cases, including five from local transmission (four people from the same family in H Nam Province and one in Ho Chi Minh City). 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. After this period of time, if a person tests negative for the coronavirus, they can remain in Vietnam. [48][49][50][51] In addition, gene sequencing results show that the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant is the dominant variant in this wave, especially among cases in central and southern localities of Vietnam. He said that the disease was spreading quickly to many provinces because Ho Chi Minh City is the primary economic centre of the country. As of Tuesday, the. [161] Out of 152 cases of illegal entry discovered in Ho Chi Minh City since May, Chinese people account for 72%, Cambodians 11%, and the rest were Vietnamese and Korean, the Center for Disease Control in Ho Chi Minh City (HCDC) said. [139], On the same day, the Vietnamese Acting Minister of Health Nguyn Thanh Long ordered the city authorities to suspend all international flights at Da Nang International Airport. In some localities, the epidemic was spread by long-distance drivers. The son was believed to have contracted the virus from his father, who had earlier flown from Wuhan on 13 January, when they met in Nha Trang on 17 January. In only two weeks, Cambodia had 4,832 new cases, mainly in the community. Contribute to chinapedia/wikipedia.en development by creating an account on GitHub. [222], As Cambodia entered the third wave of infection, Vietnam in March recorded a rapid increase in the number of imported cases in the border provinces. The cause of death still unknown. [62], On 14 January, two Chinese tourists with fever symptoms from Wuhan were quarantined by the authorities and placed under observation after they landed at Da Nang International Airport. [232] Authorities fear the cross-border transmission via illegal entrants will trigger a fourth wave in Vietnam. 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. One was a one-year-old boy in District 6. [156], On 6 August, Vietnam confirmed its tenth death, the first to be diagnosed as having COVID-19 after death. [1] In the latest wave of COVID-19 since April, Vietnam has . Throughout the pandemic, Bnh Dng detected 46 clusters, mostly from the infection chain in Ho Chi Minh City with the Delta variant. In 14,000 test samples since the beginning of the pandemic, 38 positive cases were found, of which 18 patients were being treated at Ha Tien Medical Center. [306], Sa c General Hospital cluster: The total number of cases in the province is 305 and 3 deaths. According to ng Thp Department of Health, the first patient is female, living in Tn Khnh Trung commune, Lp V district. [187] On 5 January, PM Phuc ordered to suspend flights from countries and territories infected with the new variant, the first two are South Africa and the United Kingdom. Qu V cluster recorded 127 cases, source of transmission was identified mainly from Qu V Industrial Park. Case #418, a 61-year-old man living in Hi Chu District, was in serious condition, and had to use a ventilator. [228] A few hours later, the Ministry of Health issued an emergency announcement after detected two people positive with COVID-19 flew from Phu Quoc International Airport to Hanoi. A man living in an area under lockdown receives food through a barricade during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam July 20, 2021. [74] Noticeably, this case was the first domestic transmission in Vietnam, leading to an epidemic declaration signed by the Vietnamese Prime Minister and calls for border tightening, aviation permits revoked, and visa restriction. [108], On 11 March, Vietnam confirmed their 35th case of COVID-19, a 29-year-old woman who works in an electronics supermarket in Da Nang, and had physical contact with two infected British tourists. The number of new cases is up to hundreds per day, showing that the epidemic has been spreading widely into the community, making the outbreak in Ho Chi Minh City and the southern provinces difficult to predict. The hotel where he and his family had stayed has been temporarily locked down while authorities also disinfected the nearby restaurant and car in which they traveled. During the Da Nang outbreak in August, 10 provinces were locked down. [60] An article in Bloomberg noted that Vietnam has a high level of vaccination and has seen a dramatic drop in COVID-19 related deaths. [170] After being informed about the case, the Hai Phong Department of Health isolated 152 close contacts and quarantined the hotel he had stayed. HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam, which has reported under 300 cases of coronavirus and no deaths since the first infections were detected in January, said on Wednesday it would start lifting tough. The following is a timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Vietnam. 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. Although the first case was detected in the Park 11 building, through preliminary assessment from public health units, it is possible that the outbreak originated from the T&T company, not from the family living in Park 11.[303][304]. In addition, six other large clusters with hundreds of cases in the city are linked to it. [9] Having known cases early is one of the main reasons why Vietnam was successful in fighting the virus. [189] Patient 1498 were put in quarantine at the 59th Infantry Regiment in Chuong My District from 21 December 2020 with 88 other people. On 28 November, sample was taken from the flight attendant for the third time and showed positive results for SARS-CoV-2. All recent cases were people who had been infected abroad and who had been placed in government quarantine facilities after arrival in Vietnam. Was the most dangerous and the reason for most of the cases in Vietnam's northern localities. [66], On 29 January, the Ministry of Health established 40 mobile emergency response teams, on stand-by to assist affected locations, for quarantining, disinfecting, and transporting patients or suspected patients. Five days after the initial three cases, the city recorded another 133 cases in 21 of the city's 22 districts. [37][38] As the epidemic has spread to many provinces in Vietnam, many outbreaks are occurring in many localities at the same time, making it "nearly impossible" to trace and cut the chain of infection. ", "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? [227], On the evening of 25 March, a Chinese man living in Thuan An City, Binh Duong Province took the COVID test to go to Cambodia, tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. At the beginning of the outbreak, most of the cases were linked with hospitals cluster and related to Nng (47 cases), but in late May the authorities discovered a cluster with unknown source of infection at T&T company and Park 11 Times City apartment complex. "Ho Chi Minh City has 1.6 million workers; if the disease is not well controlled, it will cause a health crisis," Minister Long emphasized. [280], On 16 August, the Ministry of Health piloted a "home-based care" program for positive cases in the city. timeline by Michael Safi. [127], On 24 April, two more cases were confirmed: both were Vietnamese students who came back from Japan and quarantined on arrival. The patient (case #17), a 26-year-old woman, had been travelling across Europe during the outbreak. Throughout his journey, he had made contact with several other people. Vietnamese authorities are still unable to explain why she has this variant since she has never had contact with people infected with COVID-19. It worked", "A worrying new wave of covid-19 is hitting South-East Asia", "Health workers face toughest pandemic battle yet", "Gin cch x hi ton thnh ph H Ni t 6h ngy 24/7", "Vietnam puts southern region in lockdown as surge grows", "Vietnam PM gains vast powers to contain Ho Chi Minh City outbreak", "Panic buying in Vietnam's largest city before tighter COVID-19 lockdown", "Ch tch TP HCM lm Ph ban Kinh t Trung ng", "Vietnam to deploy troops, issues stay-home order as COVID-19 deaths spiral", "Vietnam's largest city announces total closure to curb pandemic", "COVID-19 Stages Another Comeback in Vietnam", "Coronavirus: Vietnam ramps up border checks as imported cases rise", "Covid threat looms large as more localities report cases", "Vietnam says new COVID outbreak threatens stability", "Delta variant threatens to overload Vietnam's healthcare system: experts", "TPHCM xut chin lc sng chung vi vi-rt COVID-19, m ca tr li t ngy 15/9", "Vit Nam ch trng sng chung vi dch hay sng chung vi vi-rt COVID-19? Under a close monitoring. 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). The Ministry of Defence ordered the military to bolster troop numbers along borders to prevent illegal entrants trying to enter the country through trails to avoid being quarantined, since a large number of Vietnamese working in neighboring countries are seeking to return home for Tt in many ways. The patient is being treated at Tra Vinh Tuberculosis and Lung Disease Hospital with fever and sore throat. [137], On 22 July, a 57-year-old man went to Da Nang C Hospital coughing and feeling tired. This cluster was identified by the leaders of the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in Hanoi as having reached the 2nd or 3rd infection cycle. On 4 January, after completed isolation, his samples were taken for a second test, and without waiting for results, this person was released from the facility. After one week, the cluster number of cases in here increased to 40. However, the deputy director of Chuong My District Medical Center mistook the number of people with negative test results. May 25, 2021, 6:33 pm SGT HANOI (REUTERS) - Vietnam widened lockdown measures in its industrialised north on Tuesday (May 25) to combat its biggest Covid-19 outbreak so far, as the. On 16 October, the administration of Ho Chi Minh City closed the No. The study also found that a highly transmissible variant, along with a poorly ventilated atmosphere and the failure to wear a mask in the office made it easier for the virus to spread among these people. Under control. [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). The High Command also requested the Minister of Defence to provide additional 4,000 body bags. [64] On 24 January, Acting Minister of Health V c am ordered the activation of the Emergency Epidemic Prevention Centre. The patient had previously gone to the hospital on 20 March to treat last stage of liver disease, before testing positive for COVID-19 on 7 April. In addition, the province also recorded three more medical staff infected while on duty. On the morning of 7 May, 10 people at K Hospital, Tn Triu Branch (Thanh Tr District, Hanoi) had positive results for SARS-CoV-2 including four patients and six patients relatives. Medical personnel have concentrated on protecting COVID-19 patients with underlying disorders, prescribing antiretroviral medications to them even when they are showing no symptoms. . The number of confirmed cases is the highest total in Southeast Asia, and the 13th highest in the world. This was the first case related to military personnel in the country. [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. 17. [311], From mid-October through December 2021, Ho Chi Minh City began to close its field hospitals. Trung tm hi sc tch cc ln nht min Bc hot ng nh th no? With just 288 cases and zero deaths, this Southeast Asia country acted faster than most. Until 5 July, ng Thp had recorded many clusters of COVID-19, of which there were 110 cases at Sa c General Hospital, Garment Factory 6 has 14 cases, Agribank in Chu Thnh district has 49 cases. [288][289] 3 (25-yr-old female) was quarantined and cured in Thanh Ha Province, while the other two cases (#4: 29-yr-old male; #5: 23-yr-old female) were hospitalised in Hanoi. Hanoi has escaped the brunt of a fierce wave of coronavirus infections in Vietnam since late April, recording less than 50 of the more than 17,000 COVID-19 deaths nationwide, and just 4,414. 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. [93] However, quarantine measures continue to be imposed until further notice. Nguyn Th Mng Ngc, Director of the province's Department of Health, said the province has identified three main sources of infection. [112], On 13 March three more cases (numbers 45 to 47) were announced, related to case No. The 23-year-old man had stayed with patient 1440 in Myanmar before they crossed the Vietnamese border with other seven people. [287], Other major clusters in the city: On 2 July, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health confirmed the city had recorded many major infection chains, involving companies, shops, hospitals and markets. [174] On the same day, the HCDC confirmed one more case, an English teacher (friend of patient 1342) living in District 6. In Hanoi, the authorities also requested suspension of unnecessary mass gathering events. Ministry of Health of Vietnam (Chart from Vietnam Ministry of Health). Data from the Chicago Department of Public Health reported by the Chicago Tribune shows that despite being about 30% of the total population, Black people account for 68% of the COVID-19 related deaths in Chicago and are dying of COVID-19 at a rate nearly six-times greater than that of White Chicagoans, who account about 33% of the population and 5 was discharged on 3 February, fully recovered and after testing negative for the virus. Vietnam entered a nationwide lockdown on April 1. [81][82], Later on 4 February, the 10th case was identified. The first one was a 33-year-old Japanese businessman who had been working in Hai Phong since June. [122], From 17 to 23 April, no new cases were confirmed. The deputy director of the Da Nang Department of Health said the patient was being treated at the Da Nang Hospital Department of Tropical Medicine. [166], After the central government considered that the COVID-19 outbreak has been brought under control, on 7 September, Da Nang has decided to ease its social distancing restrictions, and all passenger transportation and business enterprises resumed normal operations. [299][300], Ph Yn cluster: Ph Yn is the central region province recorded the fastest infection rate, just from eight cases on the morning of 24 June, after 14 days the number of cases increased to 359, of which one person died. Most businesses like malls, food establishments for takeaways, financial and legal institutions, hospitality facilities, and offices may reopen. [61] However, in August, the Ministry of Health issued a recommendation to not declare COVID-19 endemic, and to instead shift the country's response from "prevention" to "stable management".