In January, when the world was starting to learn about the new coronavirus, Vietnam’s leader likened it to an enemy the nation must fight.
Tens of thousands of people were quarantined in state-run facilities over the following months and entire villages locked down in response to even small clusters of infection.
Three months after its first case was detected, the Southeast Asian country appears to have beaten back the virus, at least for now.
Vietnam has reported just two new infections in the last 10 days, both students who returned from Japan last week. The country of more than 95 million people hasn’t reported a single death from the virus.