Vietnam's COVID-19 Success Story

[Axtremus]

Coronavirus: How 'overreaction' made Vietnam a virus success
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-52628283

"Despite a long border with China and a population of 97 million people, Vietnam has recorded only just over 300 cases of Covid-19 on its soil and not a single death.

Nearly a month has passed since its last community transmission and the country is already starting to open up.

Experts say that unlike other countries now seeing infections and deaths on a huge scale, Vietnam saw a small window to act early on and used it fully.
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[Jolly]

Authoritarian communist countries can do that.

[Copper]

I assume it is relatively easy for them to stop incoming tourists.

[Horace]

If authoritarian communism could save a single American life, it would be the only conscionable form of government.