UN Analysis on Social Impacts of COVID-19 and Strategic Policy Recommendations for Viet Nam

How the pandemic will evolve within Viet Nam and globally remains uncertain. Yet, experts predict the crisis will be protracted, with a long path to recovery. With a view to addressing the uncertain outlook and impacts on the most vulnerable people, the UN Secretary-General, in a statement on 16 April 2020, underlined the need to closely look at this intricacy of social and economic impacts of COVID-19.