How COVID-19 is speeding up Vietnam’s digital transformation
23 February 2021
Authors: Quan Vu Le, Fulbright University Vietnam and Jason Quang Nguyen, VNU-HCMC
The Lunar New Year, ‘Tet’ in Vietnamese, is the most important celebration in the country. This year’s festival on 12 February was accompanied by much uncertainty as Vietnam was hit by a third COVID-19 outbreak just days prior.
The first case of the UK variant of the virus was discovered in Hai Duong province on 28 January and quickly spread to 13 provinces and cities throughout Vietnam, resulting in over 791 new community cases since the beginning of this third wave.