How Vietnam is saving lives against Covid-19?

Jonas Gomes da Silva

doi:10.31686/ijier.vol9.iss5.3139

Authors

Jonas Gomes da Silva

Federal University of Amazonas

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1718-7989

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31686/ijier.vol9.iss5.3139

Keywords:

Covid-19, FTI, Innovation, Management practices, NPIs, Policy, Technologies

Abstract

It complements Silva (2020b) research, which showed that among 108 well-evaluated countries, the top benchmark nations against Covid-19 are Vietnam, Taiwan, and Thailand. For example, on April 16, 2021 around 3,011,574 lives were officially lost by Covid-19, while Taiwan, Vietnam, and Thailand reported respectively only 11, 35, and 97 fatal cases (WORLDOMETERS, 2021). So, this article main aim is to investigate the Vietnam performance and the management practices used to save lives against Covid19. The research uses an online questionnaire, is descriptive with documentary and bibliographic approaches to identify management practices, including Non Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs) adopted against a pandemic. Also the Fatality Total Index (SILVA, 2020b p. 563) was used to compare Vietnam's performance with 43 semifinalist countries. Some results are: 1) 200 NPIs were identified across the world against coronavirus; 2) Among the 44 countries, Vietnam showed the second best performance, after Taiwan; 3) among 107 respondents living in Vietnam, only 5.61% don´t believe that cultural practices are decisive for the low rate of Covid-19 death, while most (94.39%) believe in that. From the group that believe, the most decisive cultural practices were: wear a mask, wash hands, not shake hands, not hug in public and few religious assembly; 4) for 106 respondents living in Vietnam, the ten main policy measures adopted by the National Government that saved lives against the virus are: international travel control, public information campaigns, schools closures, public event cancellations, integration with mass media, restriction on internal movement, effective public-private collaboration, increase the medical and personal equipment capacity, public transport reduction and combat fake news. At the final, ten golden lessons are provided, from 340 policies, measures, programs, projects, innovative products/services identified, with the majority led by the Public Sector (73.5%), followed by Corporations (8.5%), Others (6.5%), Start ups (6.2%), and Universities (5.3%).

Author Biography

Jonas Gomes da Silva, Federal University of Amazonas

Associate Professor at the Industrial Engineering Department of FT/UFAM – Eureka Laboratory
Manaus – Amazon – Brazil
Was Research Visitor at the MIOIR (Alliance Manchester Business School) in 2020
The University of Manchester – United Kingdom

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