Vietnam is now has cases in the high 50s. It was 16 until just over a week ago when some rich bitch flew back from London having attended the Milan fashion show and having already shown symptoms . Using her British and Vietnamese passports, she circumvented the travel restrictions in place. She succeeded in infecting loads of the other passengers in business class, tourists, who scattered the length and breadth of Vietnam and have caused a shitload more contact cases. Her friend who attended the same fashion show and also had the virus flew back from London in a jet chartered by Daddy for a mere 350,000 US dollars. Foreigners are now being treated by lepers in a lot of places, not helped by a few backpackers who have refused quarantine and carried on traveling. Saigon has closed all of the bars, brothels etc in tourist areas and places like the ancient town in Hoian and Hue have been closed completely.
The borders have been closed completely to all UK and European passport holders but, strangely, not to US or Australian passport holders. The price of a 3-month visa extension has gone from $105 US for a quick trip to Laos and back to $350 US.
I still feel the fucking lot safer here than I would be in the UK or Australia.