At the Tet (Vietnamese Lunar New Year day) dinner in London, on the 25th of January, 2020 among other things, we chatted about the historic lockdown of Wuhan in China due to new corona virus spread from a wet market there. A Vietnamese friend, who then already on high alert and rerouted his way to work, so that he would not by chance to meet potential infected people. Early Prevention! For my own professional interest in testing development for infectious diseases, I read the news on COVID-19 from UK and Vietnam regularly. As you can see the long list of articles have been written about Vietnam, it is a remarkable story. I just wish to give my glimpse view, to de myth a few things: many articles missed the point why people in Vietnam would comply with quarantine despite the inconvenient. For them, Covid-19 is the enemy and to find it effectively you need to unite. They fought and won the wars with the Chinese, the French and the American. They are determined to win this war with Covid-19. They have very strong community spirit, and they are really in it together. They have effective communication strategy with most up to date information from other countries in the mainstream media, so they learn from the experience from other countries to bolster their strategy with testing, tracing and isolation. It is still early day of the pandemic. The war on the COVID-19 is not over. What they achieved so far will help them to continue to combat with this deadly disease and for them to help others too.“ Nguyen T. K. Thanh
