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Global Health Economics and
Sustainability
Assessing Vietnam’s pandemic lockdown

provinces. Most provinces in these regions successfully DaNang-CT16-4, and KhanhHoa-CT16-2, the slope
controlled the pandemic by implementing Directive change values for the post-intervention period were
No.16/CT-TTg in specific locations. However, Phu Yen, 2.32 (95% CI: −0.84–5.48), −4.02 (95% CI: −8.19–0.15),
Da Nang, Khanh Hoa, and Ha Noi had to implement −10.81 (95% CI: −12.83–8.79), respectively.
Directive No.16/CT-TTg province- or city-wide to combat As shown in Figure 8, the provinces in the Mekong Delta
the pandemic. The HaNoi-CT16-1 intervention resulted in applied Directive No.16/CT-TTg across entire provinces
a negative trendline value for the post-intervention period relatively early, even when the number of infections was
of −4.7 (95% CI [−6.78; −2.62]). For PhuYen-CT16-3, still low. However, the effectiveness of these interventions

Figure 7. Forest plot of meta-analysis applies to the Southeast region
Abbreviation: SMD: Standardized mean difference.

Figure 8. Forest plot of meta-analysis applied to the Mekong River Delta area

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