> The only success stories with this strategy are Australia and New Zealand, which are island nations completely isolated from anywhere else.
I don't know why it is ignored, but Vietnam (population 90M) is a large country with many land borders, including a border with China, and it has done spectacularly well containing the coronavirus.
Not to take anything away from the island countries but having no land borders makes limiting the influx of Covid much simpler.
I don't know much about Vietnam's borders and how much crossing there was in pre-Covid times but perhaps it should be the Covid success model that all non-island nations emulate.
I don't know why it is ignored, but Vietnam (population 90M) is a large country with many land borders, including a border with China, and it has done spectacularly well containing the coronavirus.
Not to take anything away from the island countries but having no land borders makes limiting the influx of Covid much simpler.
I don't know much about Vietnam's borders and how much crossing there was in pre-Covid times but perhaps it should be the Covid success model that all non-island nations emulate.