Hanoi (VNA) – Global and regional media continuedhailing Vietnam’s fight against COVID-19, saying that rapid and active responseby the authorities and public cooperation play an important role.

🦋 The Australia’s The Strategist newswire said Vietnam has followed a budget-friendly approachthat has proven equally effective. The Vietnamese Government tightenedborder controls and put hospitals and local health departments on high alert before the first fatality in China and only three days afterconfirmation of the outbreak there.

Its recent study ofVietnam’s COVID-19 policy response attributed the country’s initial success inslowing the rate of infection to the authorities’ focus on communication andpublic education through technology platforms and systematic tracing ofpathogen carriers. The article also notedthat citizens have been voluntarily sharing personal health information via a government-launchedapp called NCOVI while authorities have actively interacted with citizens viathe social media. It concluded that byfocusing on early risk assessment, effective communication andgovernment–citizen cooperation, an under-resourced country with a precarioushealthcare system can manage the pandemic. At the same time, theASEAN Post said other nationsin ASEAN and the rest of the world can learn from Vietnam’s swift response tohandling the pandemic. France’s Liberation paperattributed Vietnam’s impressive achievements to the healthcare system’sefforts to ensure the safety and health of the people instead of heeding profitsof insurance companies. About this, Russia’s Novosti Petrozavodsk paper quoted a woman of the country returning from Vietnam as saying that the Vietnamese State has offeredall possible support for citizens, always ready with available food,necessities and masks to meet public demand with discounts. Meanwhile, theVietnamese people fully follow the State rules without hesitance. The Times of India saidthe Vietnamese Government has actively protected citizens against the epidemic as it promptly suggested initiatives and understood the exact nature ofchallenges. The article stressedthat the success could be reached if each citizen hightens the sense ofresponsibility and cooperates with the government. The UK’s The Guardian publisheda poster and post stamps designed by Vietnamese painters that sent clear messages of solidarity in the fightagainst COVID-19. Meanwhile, the US’s New York Times saiddespite insufficient resources and financial capability, Vietnam still sentmasks to France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK along with its neighboursCambodia and Laos. Vietnam also handed over 450,000 Dupont protective suits tothe US./.