New Zealand and Vietnam definitely half-assed some rather important parts of their response. For example, New Zealand's prime minister told everyone for two mon

New Zealand and Vietnam definitely half-assed some rather important parts of their response. For example, New Zealand's prime minister told everyone for two months that workers in their quarantine hotels were being tested weekly for Covid. She came under some criticism for the lack of testing of other potentially-exposed workers, like at ports, but insisted that at least the important ones were being monitored. Most of those workers had, in fact, never been tested. At least one of them was definitely infected, and this was only detected because an unrelated outbreak of unknown source finally prompted the government to test them all - it very nearly caused their attempt to keep out Covid to fail, if something else hadn't first. As for Vietnam, if I remember rightly their run of no Covid cases was ended by a hospital outbreak that somehow went unnoticed until an elderly visitor to the hospital with no other plausible sources of infection happened to get infected, develop bad symptoms, and tested positive - and then so did several other people who'd been there. This does not suggest good things about their in-hospital testing. The amount of time it took for the existence of a new case to become public knowledge should also call into question just how forthright and honest the government was being.