Vietnam is an important part of the global industrial chain and supply chain. However, the continued spread of COVID-19 has a serious impact on the local manufacturing industry. In order to recover its economy as soon as possible, Vietnam lifted the city closure measures in Ho Chi Minh City and its surrounding areas with developed manufacturing industry earlier this month, but a large number of workers took this opportunity to flee the city. At some checkpoints, workers even knelt down and asked for release.

Vietnam: the epidemic has not disappeared, the "sick" has been unsealed, and millions of migrant workers have fled the city
A large number of Vietnamese migrant workers who did not have time to do the new crown screening were blocked at the checkpoint on their way home. They did not hesitate to kneel down and ask the epidemic prevention department for permission. Since the beginning of this month, a large number of motorcycles from Vietnam's southern industrial zone have poured into the western region, causing congestion in many places.
According to the statistics of the Ministry of health of Vietnam, more than 1000 of the 157000 people who returned home from October 1 to 8 showed positive results. The Vietnamese government estimates that the number of people returning home may exceed 2 million.
Hundreds of employees fled because only one person was diagnosed, and the shadow of the epidemic shrouded the production line

In fact, the fear of Xinguan has been accompanied by the workers on the production line. In July this year, hundreds of employees forcibly fled from a factory in Pingyang Province, Vietnam, only because one employee in the factory was diagnosed as Xinguan that day.
In the past three months, Vietnam has added a total of nearly 770000 confirmed cases, of which 19000 people have died due to Xinguan, and the deaths are basically concentrated in Ho Chi Minh City with developed manufacturing industry.
The government had no choice but to unseal and the workers took the opportunity to flee
As many international enterprises have production lines in Vietnam, a large number of multinational enterprises have stopped production due to the epidemic in recent months, resulting in heavy losses. Under pressure from all parties, the Vietnamese government chose to unseal with illness, but it backfired. Workers took the opportunity to flee the city one after another. On October 3, a manufacturing enterprise in Pingyang province of Vietnam responded to the call to resume work and production, but the on-the-job rate of employees was less than 20%.
One third of textile workers leave their posts and production is difficult to recover
On October 6, the global footwear giant Baocheng group announced the resumption of production, but the number of on-the-job workers was no more than 30%, and more than 40000 workers had not returned to their posts. Despite the salary increase and persuasion scheme, employees' willingness to return to work is still not high. According to statistics, there are about 3 million workers in Vietnam's textile and garment industry, of which about 1 million are currently leaving or on vacation.
Pan Jine, an expert on Vietnam of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences: in the three months from July to September, almost all factories in the South were shut down. Under this background, of course, its economy is obviously going to decline, because Vietnam's dependence on foreign trade has reached more than 200%.