In January 2021, it was projected that it may increase to 3.8% in 2021. Īlthough the pandemic has heavily disrupted the country's economy, Vietnam's GDP growth rate still remained one of the highest in the Asia-Pacific Region, at 2.91% in 2020. In response, government-mandated quarantine for foreign arrivals and close contacts to confirmed cases was extended to 21 days, and accompanying safety measures also tightened up. A shortage of the AstraZeneca vaccine on which the country continued to rely on as of August 2021, a degree of complacency after successes in previous outbreaks, and infections originating from foreign workers were all considered to have contributed to the outbreak. This led to two of its largest cities ( Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi) and around a third of the country's population coming under some form of lockdown by late July. Starting in April 2021, Vietnam experienced its largest outbreak to date, with over 1.2 million infections recorded by November. The specially-designated such as diplomats would be exempt. Individuals entering Vietnam had to isolate for at least 14 days if unvaccinated, and seven days if fully vaccinated with the procedure carried out at government-funded quarantine facilities. In January 2021, the government announced a stricter quarantine policy to "protect the country" during 2021 Lunar New Year. The measure did not apply to diplomats, officials, foreign investors, experts, and skilled workers. Vietnam suspended the entry of all foreigners from 22 March 2020 until 17 November 2021 to limit the spread of the virus. ĭuring 2020, the Vietnamese government's efforts at containing the spread of COVID-19 were mostly successful. Clusters of cases were later detected in Vĩnh Phúc, Hải Dương Province and three major cities of the country, with the first death on 31 July 2020. Early cases were primarily imported until local transmission began to develop in February and March. The virus was first confirmed to have spread to Vietnam on 23 January 2020, when two Chinese people in Ho Chi Minh City tested positive for the virus. On 31 December 2019, China announced the discovery of a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan. Hồ Chí Minh City is the most-affected locale with 496,818 confirmed cases and 19,190 deaths, but the Vietnam Ministry of Health estimated that the real number of cases may be four to five times higher. As of 21 December 2021, Vietnam has officially reported 1,571,780 laboratory confirmed cases, 1,160,090 recoveries, and 30,041 deaths, the 4th highest in Southeast Asia after Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia and the 32th highest in the world. The COVID-19 pandemic in Vietnam is part of the ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 ( COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ( SARS-CoV-2).
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