A plane of national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines (Photo: VNA)CAAV Director Dinh Viet Thangcited the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as saying that more than 140,000 overseasVietnamese people are planning to returnto the homeland.
Airlines shared the view thatit is necessary to increase flights linking with some markets with high demandsuch as Japan, the RoK, and Taiwan, he noted.
Thang said after the Ministryof Health had issued guidance on anti-pandemic measures, the CAAV on December17 sent official documents to aviation authorities of Japan, the RoK, Taipei (Taiwan,China), China, Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos. These are the destinationswith which the Prime Minister has agreed to resume commercial passengerflights.
It proposed four flights toVietnam per week for each side while flights from Vietnam follow currentregulations, starting January 1, 2022, and the frequency will be adjustedbasing on the COVID-19 situation.
Meanwhile, as only VietnamAirlines has been flying to the US and got licensed by both countries’authorities, this carrier can immediately conduct regular flights as schedule.
Apart from the US, Japan,Taipei (Taiwan), Singapore, and Cambodia have agreed with Vietnam’s proposal sofar.
Planes of Vietnamese airlines (Photo: VNA)TheCAAV will negotiate with foreign partners to update information about rapid COVID-19tests for passengers before getting on planes. At Vietnamese airports, it willassign the Airports Corporation of Vietnam to work with local health authoritiesto carry out tests, and passengers will have to pay for the tests bythemselves.
Interms of the first Omicron case in Vietnam confirmed on December 27 by theHealth Ministry, the Hanoi-based Central Military Hospital 108 said the patientis in stable health condition and haven’t shown any symptoms.
Thispassenger flew from the UK and arrived at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoion December 19 evening. The patient was sent to the hospital’s quarantine area aftertesting positive for SARS-CoV-2 at the airport./.
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