AUTHOR=Nam Nguyen Hai , Do Le Bao-Tran , Huy Nguyen Tien 

TITLE=Community-Based Measures to Against the COVID-19: An Experience From Vietnam With Consecutive 3 Months of no New Infection in the Community During the First Wave of Pandemic

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Public Health

VOLUME=Volume 9 - 2021

YEAR=2021

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2021.583655

DOI=10.3389/fpubh.2021.583655

ISSN=2296-2565

ABSTRACT=Vietnam faces a high risk of transmission of COVID-19 during the pandemic. Regardless of specific challenges in a low resource country, the Vietnamese government had provided sustainable response capacity and rapid decision to manage the entirety of the COVID-19 outbreak with lessons learned from the epidemic of SARS in 2003 and H1N1 in 2009. Quick response, specific epidemiological F0-F5 tracing system and public education represented as a key measures that helped Vietnam to control the outbreak. Vietnam has currently reported 373 accumulated confirmed cases and no cases of deaths was reported, within the last 90 consecutive days of no new infections in the community. Vietnam mulls declaring the end of COVID-19 crisis.