COVID-19 success story Vietnam imposes new lockdown of Hanoi

About a month ago, journos were writing about Vietnam as a COVID-19 success story:

Vietnam – a country of 97 million – has seen just 35 coronavirus deaths since the pandemic began.

How did the country contain the spread of Covid-19 so well? With strict, early travel restrictions.

Here’s what that looked like: https://t.co/RhTSLeDu11

— Vox (@voxdotcom) April 26, 2021

And now they’re “failing”:

Vietnam, a pandemic success story…is now failing.

"Hanoi said it had detected a highly infectious new strand of the coronavirus that appeared to combine characteristics of two variants initially documented in Britain and India respectively."https://t.co/QrofHy4eU5

— Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) June 1, 2021

They’ve locked down Hanoi:

Vietnam’s capital enters lockdown after ‘dangerous’ new COVID variant found. @IanPannell reports. https://t.co/PlzqRGLk9I pic.twitter.com/JK9pyOGFeq

— Good Morning America (@GMA) June 1, 2021

This includes flight into the capital:

🇻🇳 Vietnam has suspended international flights into Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City as it tries to control a new hybrid variant@niccijsmith reports ~ 🧵https://t.co/j5RmysIytF

— Telegraph Global Health Security (@TelGlobalHealth) June 1, 2021

The plan is to test all 9 million residents in Hanoi:

Vietnam to do Covid tests on all 9 million residents of largest city Hanoi https://t.co/QZZmBYtFqc

— Amit Paranjape (@aparanjape) May 31, 2021

Of note, China is restricting internal travel and has locked down several streets in the city of Guangzhou:

China has cancelled hundreds of flights and locked down several streets in Guangzhou over the spread of the Indian variant of COVID-19 https://t.co/qkUz2anE8K

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) June 1, 2021

This will certainly test China’s vaccine efficacy:

Even China isn't succeeding anymore.

Only the vaccine can solve this…and their vaccine is substandard. https://t.co/gxZMLufGcI

— Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) June 1, 2021