Health

14-day quarantine mandatory for everyone entering Vietnam from March 21

All of the passengers entering Vietnam will have to undergo a 14-day concentrated quarantine period as from 0:00 on March 21, according to the Ministry of Transport.
14-day quarantine mandatory for everyone entering Vietnam from March 21 ảnh 1At Hanoi-based Noi Bai International Airport (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – All of the passengers entering Vietnam will have to undergo a14-day concentrated quarantine period as from 0:00 on March 21, according tothe Ministry of Transport.

Theministry has sent an urgent notice on this issue to the Civil AviationAuthority of Vietnam (CAA), asking it to instruct airlines to notify theircustomers.

Thosewho come to Vietnam for diplomatic and official purposes will be quarantined atdiplomatic agencies or accommodation establishments under the monitoring ofauthorities and medical agencies, according to the notice.

Theministry has also ordered airlines to prepare compulsory medical declarationforms to the passengers, check their body temperature before they enter the terminals,and sterilise the planes.

Airportauthorities will have to coordinate with relevant agencies to dispersepassengers at the quarantine areas in the terminals in order to avoidcongestion, the notice said, adding every passenger should not be kept therefor more than 90 minutes./.
VNA
#COVID-19#coronavirus#Ministry of Transport#Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam#compulsory medical declaration forms#Vietnam#VietnamPlus#Viet Nam News
Follow VietnamPlus

Related News

Two medical workers test positive for COVID-19

Two medical workers test positive for COVID-19

Two nurses from Hanoi-based Bach Mai Hospital have become the first medical workers in Vietnam to test positive for SARS-CoV-2, said the Ministry of Health on March 20 afternoon.
COVID-19: Indonesia prepares for worst growth scenarios

COVID-19: Indonesia prepares for worst growth scenarios

The Indonesian government has prepared a few scenarios on how Indonesia's economic growth will end up as the COVID-19 pandemic began to hit the country’s economy, said Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani Indrawati on March 20.

See more

Up to 95% of children aged 1-5 living in the city are expected to be vaccinated against measles and rubella this year. (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi begins measles vaccination campaign

Hanoi commenced a measles vaccination campaign at health stations in the districts of Long Bien, Phu Xuyen, Phuc Tho, Thuong Tin, Dong Anh, Hoai Duc and Thach That and Son Tay township on October 14.

The working session on vaccine manufacturing cooperation with Sanofi on October 8.(Photo: VNA)

Vietnamese, French firms partner in vaccine production

The Vietnam Vaccine Joint Stock Company (VNVC) and Sanofi on October 8 signed a document guiding the cooperation in manufacturing some vaccines of the French pharmaceutical group in the Southeast Asian country.

Providing free health check-ups and medicine to workers. (Photo: VNA)

Vietnam, IOM foster cooperation in improving migrants’ health

The Ministry of Health (MoH) and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) on September 18 signed a memorandum of understanding on strengthening cooperation in enhancing the health and quality of life of migrants, and supporting them in accessing national health systems and policies.

Doctor Jacques Ballout and a Vietnamese apprentice doctor. (Photo: VNA)

Vietnamese doctors impress French colleagues

Industriousness, enthusiasm, and smartness are the impressions that French doctors have had of their colleagues from the Vietnam – Sweden hospital in the northern province of Quang Ninh’s Uong Bi city, who are working at the Pierre Bérégovoy hospital, Nevers city of Nièvre province, under an apprenticeship programme.

Passengers at Noi Bai International Airport (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi tightens control, prevention of monkeypox

The Hanoi Department of Health has asked the city's Centre for Disease Control (CDC) to coordinate with Noi Bai International Airport and relevant units to increase monitoring to promptly detect suspected monkeypox cases at the airport and border gates, especially those returning from countries where the disease is currently spreading.

A doctor gives a dental check-up to a child at the September 7 event in the Czech Republic. (Photo: VNA)

Vietnamese in Czech Republic join hands for community health

The network of Vietnamese intellectuals and experts, the Vietnamese youths and students association, and the group of Vietnamese doctors and physicians in the Czech Republic have coordinated to offer free health check-ups and consultancy to the Vietnamese community in the country.