Vietnam to restrict inbound flights forward of Lunar New Year

Vietnam will restrict flights bringing citizens residence from now until the conclude of the Lunar New Yr in mid-February, when significant gatherings indoors are envisioned, to lessen coronavirus risks, the country’s prime minister stated.

With a new Covid-19 variant spreading about the globe and the future Lunar New Year, the country’s most essential getaway, only necessary flights permitted by health, international, protection, community safety and transportation ministry are allowed to enter the place, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc reported.

Following the Lunar New Year, which falls on February 10-16, the transport ministry will study the risk of intercontinental flights resumption, Phuc extra.

Vietnam has suspended all inbound global business flights given that late March, but the govt has been functioning repatriation flights to carry dwelling Vietnamese citizens stuck overseas amid the pandemic.

Some exclusive flights carrying overseas professionals and buyers have been permitted to fly into Vietnam. All folks coming into the country have to devote 14 times in quarantine.

The region on Tuesday suspended inbound flights from nations around the world with new Covid-19 variants, in the beginning Britain and South Africa.

Thanks to strict quarantine and tracking measures, Vietnam fared considerably much better than a lot of nations, registering a complete of 1,513 coronavirus bacterial infections and 35 deaths. It has long gone 38 days with no locally transmitted scenarios.

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