13-05-2020, 06:03 AM
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Re: Chinese Coronavirus
Zero deaths. It's an achievement amid the coronavirus pandemic that governments from the United States to Italy can only dream of.
While cases of COVID-19 shoot up in wealthy Singapore and the disease continues on a worrying trend elsewhere in South-East Asia, Vietnam is an unlikely outlier.
It has a land border spanning more than 1,400 kilometres with China, where the novel coronavirus originated, a population of more than 90 million, and a GDP per capita 22 times less than Australia's.
Nevertheless, Vietnam's lack of coronavirus deaths remains the envy of the world.
As of Monday, authorities reported a further eight recoveries from the virus, bringing the total number of people cured in Vietnam to 249. That's of a total of just 288 confirmed cases.
Vietnam is an authoritarian, one-party state which is notoriously secretive about sharing information.
But most experts believe Vietnamese authorities are being honest about coronavirus statistics.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-...-asia/12237314