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Schools are reopening and buses are operating as usual in Vietnam, which has not registered any new cases in the community for almost a month.
Preventing the spread of Covid-19, Vietnam is now reaping strategic results from this rapid global response to the pandemic.
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Above is the comment from journalist Tan Hui Yee in a recent Straits Times article. The author quoted business consultants as saying that investor interest, which has increased this year, is further motivated in the context of a pandemic that exposes the urgency to move production away. China.
Meanwhile, exports of masks and test kits from Vietnam can help the country reduce the impact of a pandemic on the economy.
“For the first month or two of the pandemic, everything was delayed,” recalls Trent Davies, director of international business consulting for Dezan Shira & Associates, based in Vietnam. “But we are starting to receive more and more emails from companies that are interested in investing in Vietnam.”
Vietnam registered the first person infected with the new strain of the corona virus on January 23. Vietnam began reducing the gap in mid-April and continued to reduce restrictions in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. HCM a week later. On 9/5, officials at TP. HCM removed the restrictions on the bars.
Compared to neighboring countries like Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore, which still have thousands of people with Covid-19, Vietnam has kept the number of cases below 300, thanks to a combination of a range of measures, such as travel restrictions. , isolation, tests and traceability.
Contributing to this success are test kits made in Vietnam, which are now mass-produced for export to countries such as Iran, Finland, and Malaysia. The product was approved by the World Health Organization and the United Kingdom in April, allowing it to be sold in Europe.
Meanwhile, Vabiotech has begun testing a coronavirus vaccine in mice.
Mask production has helped Vietnam’s textile and clothing industry, which is struggling due to falling demand from Western customers. Even before export restrictions were lifted in April, Vietnam shipped more than 80 million masks in the first half of April to countries like Japan and South Korea.
The current high demand is from France, which forces people to wear masks when participating in public transport and in secondary schools after easing the blockade across the country. Vietnam has also donated more than a million masks to neighboring countries like Laos and Cambodia, including other countries like the United States and Russia.
By achieving early success, Vietnam as president of ASEAN is gaining a strong position in leading and shaping regional responses to Covid-19, according to Dr. Le Thu Huong, senior analyst at the Australian Institute for Strategic Policy.
“No country can recover on its own, but countries that are in better shape and come out of the crisis relatively soon will have a better position to implement a leadership initiative,” he told the Straits Times.
At an online business conference on May 9, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc set an economic growth target of more than 5% in 2020, although the International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicted the number last month. This is around 2.7%.
According to Mr. Davies, the calm investment due to the pandemic gave Vietnam time to develop and complete the infrastructure that had many problems before the crisis occurred, thus supporting good public development. race later this year.
Thanh Hao
