> if you fail to self isolate, you go to a gov’t camp
There are a few instances of this, which of course the govt made sure were widely reported. It's very unlikely in general that they would know, though.
> all int’l flight have been stopped; only repatriation flights are happening
This is completely false, as you can verify on any public flight tracker website. The number of flights is greatly reduced, but they never stopped. Also, extra charter flights were put on for (at least) Samsung and LG employees to come from Korea, regularly, even in the middle of the lockdown. The "all international flights stopped" line was repeated many times in the local media, and most people here believe it, despite it being untrue.
> for those foreigners who made it in before the flights stopped, they all went to gov't facilities
Not true at all, I know many people who did not have to.
> if someone tests positive, they will lock down all the people around them for 24hr, disinfect common areas and test
They notify the people around them and tell them to self-isolate. They spray some bleach around. They do not test unless symptoms are shown.
Maybe there is a bit of variation across Vietnam? I’m just sharing what my in-laws observed where they live.
When I say “all international flights” stopped, I mean, you can’t just hoop on the next flight to Vietnam. Yes, there are still repatriation flights happening and flight for certain purposes, but “normal” air travel has stopped, no?
So regardless, would you agree that Vietnam is going far beyond a lot of countries in trying to control the spread?
> Maybe there is a bit of variation across Vietnam? I’m just sharing what my in-laws observed where they live.
Perhaps. My experience was with HCMC and Hanoi.
> When I say “all international flights” stopped, I mean, you can’t just hop on the next flight to Vietnam. Yes, there are still repatriation flights happening and flight for certain purposes, but “normal” air travel has stopped, no?
Actually, there were normal, scheduled flights throughout the lockdown. There are right now, there were last week, and there were every week before that. You can trivially confirm this on a flight-tracking website (one of the ones that goes on the ADS-B data, so you see actual aircraft tracks, rather than just a flight schedule website which may show you flights that didn't actually operate). Visa waiver, visa-on-arrival, e-visa and visa issuance for tourists completely stopped, so in practice a tourist can't board a flight to Vietnam, but a small number of flights have continued running throughout, indicating sufficient demand from people who are able to fly here (Vietnamese citizens, people with residence permits, people who were able to get issued non-tourist visas in their home country, ...)
> So regardless, would you agree that Vietnam is going far beyond a lot of countries in trying to control the spread?
I'd say they're pretty much on par with any of the places that aren't a massive failure. But I also think the question of which country did it better or worse is not very interesting, and mostly a pointless political distraction from useful questions like which control measures have a meaningful effect and which don't.
> if you fail to self isolate, you go to a gov’t camp
There are a few instances of this, which of course the govt made sure were widely reported. It's very unlikely in general that they would know, though.
> all int’l flight have been stopped; only repatriation flights are happening
This is completely false, as you can verify on any public flight tracker website. The number of flights is greatly reduced, but they never stopped. Also, extra charter flights were put on for (at least) Samsung and LG employees to come from Korea, regularly, even in the middle of the lockdown. The "all international flights stopped" line was repeated many times in the local media, and most people here believe it, despite it being untrue.
> for those foreigners who made it in before the flights stopped, they all went to gov't facilities
Not true at all, I know many people who did not have to.
> if someone tests positive, they will lock down all the people around them for 24hr, disinfect common areas and test
They notify the people around them and tell them to self-isolate. They spray some bleach around. They do not test unless symptoms are shown.