Saturday, February 27, 2021, 11:08 GMT+7 British Ambassador to Vietnam Gareth Ward thanks the Vietnamese government in a video posted on Facebook on March 16, 2020. One year ago, I first realised that COVID-19 would significantly disrupt all of our lives. My wife flew from London to Hanoi, and several days later she was contacted about several positive cases on her flight. She went into isolation for two weeks (luckily, she was not infected). I have to admit that what seemed a very strict response then, now seems a sensible and normal public health measure. We have all spent the last year tracking infection rates, virus mutations and struggling to accept the terrible number of deaths around the world.