id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-343172-9o4p0q0q Huynh, Toan Luu Duc The COVID-19 containment in Vietnam: What are we doing? 2020-04-15 .txt text/plain 1352 80 55 T his viewpoint provides an explanation from the public health policies of Vietnamese government to contain the contagious disease with regard to COVID-19 pandemic. A combination of an early lockdown, increase in "virality" of the health information, encouragement in health declaration, regulation for wearing mask in the public, and country' s unity have been the effective ways to cope with this deadly virus in Vietnam, a developing country, which became the first country to halt the SARS spread successfully in 2003. Instead of forcing the citizens with the compulsory regulation, the Vietnam government did well to disseminate nudging-behavior policies, which can increase the "virality" of the information [4] . According to the Ministry of Information and Technology, about 6 billion messages have been sent to the Vietnamese citizens to raise their awareness about the hand-washing, self-quarantine, self-checking health, etc. Although the COVID-19 pandemic is a complex global challenge, the timely actions conducted by the Vietnamese authorities are appreciated based on behavioral economics [7] . ./cache/cord-343172-9o4p0q0q.txt ./txt/cord-343172-9o4p0q0q.txt