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Health declaration required for passengers from RoK at Hanoi airport

All passengers from the Republic of Korea (RoK) are required to fill out health declaration forms when entering Vietnam via Hanoi-based Noi Bai International Airport as from June 3 as a precaution after the RoK has reported several cases of the deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV).
All passengers from the Republic of Korea (RoK) are required to fill outhealth declaration forms when entering Vietnam via Hanoi-based Noi BaiInternational Airport as from June 3 as a precaution after the RoK hasreported several cases of the deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome(MERS-CoV).

Noi Bai Airport caters for about 10flights from the RoK and the Middle East every day with each carryingsome 200 passengers.

Passengers from the MiddleEast have been required to fill out medical declaration forms and havetheir body temperature checked at Noi Bai since June last year.

The Ministry of Health said MERS-CoV has so far spread to 26 countrieswith 1,154 patients, 434 of whom have died. In Asia, four countrieshave recorded MERS-CoV cases: the Philippines, Malaysia, the RoK, andChina.

Vietnam has stepped up drastic prevention measures recently due to the rapid spreading of MERS-CoV.

MERS-CoV, first reported in Saudi Arabia in 2012, belongs to a familyof corona viruses that include SARS, which haunted Asia in 2003.

The disease can spread between people andcauses fevers, breathing problems, pneumonia and kidney failure. Thedeath rate of people confirmed to have the virus infection is about 51percent. No vaccine is currently available.-VNA
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