Coronavirus Has a Cure: All Patients in Vietnam Cured

 Amid the rapid spread of the coronavirus outbreak around the world, Vietnam announced earlier this week that all 16 infected patients in the country have been discharged from the hospital, having been declared cured of the deadly disease.

For the last 15 days, including on Friday, the government also detected no new cases of infections, the last one being reported on February 13, even as a village north of Hanoi remains under lockdown for 20 days.

"If fighting COVID-19 has been a war, then we have won the first round but not the entire war because the situation can be very unpredictable," Vietnam's health ministry quoted Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam as saying, referring to the coronavirus, during an online conference with city and provincial officials on Tuesday.

Worldwide, the outbreak has already killed almost 3,000 and infected more than 83,000 as of Saturday.

It's a different story, however, in Vietnam, and World Health Organization (WHO) officials and health experts said the government's swift response to the health emergency was crucial in containing the crisis at the early stage.