1Cademy - Stage II of Vietnams Response

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Vietnam's Government Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic

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Stage II of Vietnam's Response

Lasted from February 26, 2020, to April 15, 2020.
New cases came from citizens who traveled to South Korea and Europe and the later stage cases came from transmission throughout the community(which led the government to place the strictest restrictions, including a fifteen-day national social distancing)
The number of confirmed cases at the end of Stage II rose to 268
On February 25, the Vietnam government implemented entry bans on peoples who had traveled from South Korea and other infected areas.
February 29 the Visa Waiver Program for South Korean nationals was suspended and it was mandatory for all travelers coming to Vietnam from South Korea to self-isolate for fourteen days
In March, robots to help assist quarantined citizens were created by Hue Hospital.
On March 1, airports in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh refrained from receiving any flights from South Korea and instead rerouted landings to Van Don and Can Tho airports and before even entering Vietnam, these passengers had to quarantine for fourteen-days and undergo mandatory health checks. If passengers showed signs of Covid-19 symptoms such as a fever, shortness of breath, or a cough, they were brought to health facilities for treatments, quarantine, and samples for testing.
On March 5, all flights to South Korea from Vietnam and back were cancelled by Vietnam Airlines and Vietjet Air, the Agency of Health Examination and Treatment created an online system to diagnose and treat Covid-19, and the virus detection test kit was produced.
Due to border closures, on March 18 flights between Vietnam and Malaysia were cancelled through the end of March and flights between Vietnam and France were cancelled indefinitely.
March 19 Vietnam Airlines cancelled all international flights.
On March 21, a mandatory quarantine for passengers from all flights from all countries entering Vietnam was required by Vietnam.
March 24 all non-essential services(beauty services, massage parlors, bars, etcs.) were closed immediately by the People's Committee of HCM city in twenty-four districts and rice exportation was stopped for national food security.
March 27 all public transport activities were stopped by 80% in Hanoi and all bus operations were stopped through April 22.
On March 30, 200,000 rapid Covid-19 tests were imported from South Korea and were prioritized for those quarantined at home in high risk areas.
On April 1, the Directive Number 16/CT-TTg was signed by the Vietnam government which issued social distancing guidelines where people were only allowed to leave their residences for medicine and for food and where gatherings with more than two people were banned. Additionally, businesses that were not essential to producing and providing essential goods were closed.
From April 1 to April 15, the borders between Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos were closed.
In this stage, the primary objective was to "flatten the curve"