Uhhhhhh....how do you know who to quarantine and who to inform they have been in contact with someone with coronavirus BEFORE the first case was even detected?
Oh, how I look forward to the FReepsplaining on this one. This should be epic.
Freepersplaining - Vietnam officials can dissemble with a straight face, no difficulty whatsoever. Also, they take EVERYTHING the Chinese officials say with a large measure of skepticism, which is to say, if the Chinese say things are one way, probably almost the polar opposite is the correct interpretation.
Now, the actual passing of the COVID-19 Wuhan virus was probably quite widespread among the Vietnamese people, but the relative youth of their population, and the more accepted practice of social distancing, kept the concentration of continued repassing back and forth between affected individuals down to a bare minimum, keeping the disease from reaching critical morbid levels that have killed elsewhere in the world.
You quarantine people inbound from effected places. And start tracking down the ones that got in before you started quarantining and contact tracing their path. You know, all the stuff FReepers were screaming had to be done during the last Ebola outbreak. Not too tough. Especially for a small country already run by a dictatorship.
There were initially 16 cases, which were identified.
The entire country, masked up. EVERYONE.
Everyone. People you saw, everywhere. Every place, all day, everyone.
It has been now 5 months. They have now relaxed the regulations.
But the initial reaction was in my opinion, aggressive, and very effective.
Vietnam did handle this very, very well.
BTW, just started teaching again, and just had a Covid-19 test.