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

Luu Duc Toan Huynh

Regional Studies, 2023, vol. 57, issue 9, 1882-1892

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2023
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00343404.2022.2137486 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:regstd:v:57:y:2023:i:9:p:1882-1892

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.tandfonline.com/pricing/journal/CRES20

DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2022.2137486

Access Statistics for this article

Regional Studies is currently edited by Ivan Turok

More articles in Regional Studies from Taylor & Francis Journals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Longhurst ().