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What Vietnam’s localized lockdown policy showed: it did not work and was too late

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  • Luu Duc Toan Huynh

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Vietnam was previously lauded as a model for fighting the COVID-19 pandemic and it imposed localized lockdowns to deal with the emergence of deadly new variants. Here, daily data from 63 Vietnamese provinces for the period January–July 2021 (i.e., before vaccinations became available) are collected, and a panel event study is performed to evaluate the effectiveness of the localized lockdown policy. The number of infected cases is found to increase despite the lockdowns reducing visits to public areas. These results have implications for the lateness of the localized lockdowns and strictness of social distancing.

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  • Luu Duc Toan Huynh, 2023. "What Vietnam’s localized lockdown policy showed: it did not work and was too late," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 57(9), pages 1882-1892, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:regstd:v:57:y:2023:i:9:p:1882-1892
    DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2022.2137486
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