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Vietnam Update Oct 4: Ho Chi Minh City’s first weekend under the new normal

October 4, 2021 Uncategorized by Access Asia

After months of some form of a lockdown, Vietnam’s largest city and epicenter of the country’s fourth Covid wave, Ho Chi Minh City, enjoyed its first weekend under relaxed restrictions. A sense of normalcy is returning, yet Vietnam’s Covid-19 battle is far from over. The following is Access Asia’s latest update on the situation in Vietnam in collaboration with Vietnam Weekly, a subscription-based publication covering current affairs in Vietnam. On Friday afternoon, Ho Chi Minh City’s overarching new pandemic rules got an official name: Directive 18. This codified the sweeping loosening of restrictions and the impact this weekend was as […]

Vietnam Update: August 30

August 30, 2021 Uncategorized by Access Asia

As we end the month of August, Vietnam has now gone four months of an uphill battle against its fourth wave of Covid cases, a battle that due to strict containment measures has shuttered the economy, disrupted supply chains and of course uprooted people’s livelihoods. Unfortunately, the light at the end of the tunnel is still not appearing as covid cases continue to rise. Yet, we are hopeful that we are either at or very near the peak and that numbers will begin a steady downturn, restrictions steadily eased, and a sense of normalcy can return. One thing is certain […]

Vietnam: COVID-19 comes for the economy

August 19, 2021 Uncategorized by Access Asia

Vietnam is battling major Covid-19 outbreaks throughout the country as the Delta variant unleashes its havoc on a country that up until a few months ago had been mostly spared from the pandemic. Strict containment measures, mostly in the form of hard lock downs, have taken a major toll on the livelihoods of millions as economic activity shutters. In this update, which is in in collaboration with Vietnam Weekly, we are going to take a closer look at the economic impact of the current outbreak (Vietnam’s fourth wave which began in late April). COVID-19 comes for the economy In late April, Vietnam […]

Covid-19 Vietnam Briefing

March 16, 2020 2019-nCoV, Access Asia, business risk, China, covid-19, epidemic, pandemic, Vietnam by Access Asia

It is too soon to say whether Vietnam – or indeed anywhere – has dodged the covid-19 bullet. But, in terms of infection caseloads, the nation of some 90 million is containing numbers better than anywhere in the region on a per-capita basis.

Wuhan Coronavirus Risk Update

February 6, 2020 2019-nCoV, Access Asia, Business, business risk, Cambodia, China, emergent disease, epidemic, epiidemic, Wuhan virus by Access Asia

The coronavirus is not yet a pandemic, but China is so key to the global economy that a Chinese “local epidemic event” is global in its ramifications.