Doctors join in a training at the Cu Chi makeshift hospital for Covid-19 patients in Ho Chi Minh City

In a meeting with the media held in Ho Chi Minh City on February 25, Vu Manh Cuong, deputy head of the Ministry of Health's Department of Communications, Emulation and Rewards confirmed that Vietnam had succeeded in the first stages of the fighting and prevention against the coronavirus and all information provided is clear and transparent.

"We're living in an information era with the boom of social media," Cuong said. "So we need to take advantage of that and make public everything about the epidemic and get co-operation from the public in the fight against it. That has partly contributed to our success."

The official noted that some Vietnamese health facilities that are dealing with the Covid-19 are co-operated by the Ministry of Health and the US' Centre for Disease Control and Prevention and all progress was updated globally.

"Experts from the WHO in Vietnam are closely working with local doctors in fighting Covid-19," he added. "They attended all our meetings and conferences. So we can’t hide anything."

The official stressed that Vietnam had always carried out preventive measures ahead of WHO warnings and all those measures had proved effective.

"When the virus outbreak started in China, we immediately took action before the WHO advised us to, because we have a long border with China and we already saw a big threat," he explained.

And with strict quarantine policies and treatment efforts made so far had seen initial success in curbing the epidemic, he official added. Dtinews

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