That ratio of 791 tests to every confirmed case is by far the highest in the world, according to data from health ministries compiled by Reuters.

Vietnam increased the number of laboratories that can test for COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, from three at the beginning of the outbreak in January, to 112 by April.Īs of Wednesday, 213,743 tests had been conducted in Vietnam, of which 270 were positive, according to health ministry data.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), who has been liaising with Vietnam’s government on the outbreak since early January. He added that the CDC has “great confidence” in the Vietnamese government’s response to the crisis. “The steps are easy to describe but difficult to implement, yet they’ve been very successful at implementing them over and over again,” said Matthew Moore, a Hanoi-based official from the U.S. Graphic: Number of COVID-19 tests per confirmed case – Graphic: Vietnam’s testing and quarantine programme – These public health experts say Vietnam was successful because it made early, decisive moves to restrict travel into the country, put tens of thousands of people into quarantine and quickly scaled up the use of tests and a system to track down people who might have been exposed to the virus. For an interactive graphic tracking the global spread, click Its slightly more populous regional neighbour the Philippines, in comparison, has reported almost 30 times as many cases and more than 500 deaths. That puts the country on course to revive its economy much sooner than most others, according to several public health experts interviewed by Reuters. The government is officially reporting a relatively small 270 cases and zero deaths. Vietnam, a country of 96 million people which shares a border with China, is signalling that it has succeeded where many wealthier and more developed countries have not by containing the new coronavirus. “The official said Vietnam needed to act quickly,” said Viet, whose medical equipment company, Viet A Corp, makes test kits and has been central to Vietnam ramping up its testing programme in response to the outbreak. Vietnam had detected its first two cases of the new coronavirus days earlier, and the government was contacting companies with experience of medical testing for urgent help. It was late January, just after the Lunar New Year. HANOI (Reuters) – Businessman Phan Quoc Viet was making his usual prayers at a pagoda in Tay Ninh, a province in southern Vietnam, when the government official’s call came. By Khanh Vu, Phuong Nguyen and James Pearson

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