Thedepartment is working with the Ministry of Transport and Vietnam SocialSecurity for such incorporation to help the cards replace a series of documents.
Thiswill facilitate the process of administrative procedures and other transactions by citizens aswell as strengthen COVID-19 prevention and control.
Underthe Law on Citizen Identification in 2014, people from 14 years of age canobtain an ID card, which is then renewed when they turn 25, 40, and 60.
Bythe end of September, the Ministry of Public Security had issued about 45million chip-based ID cards, each consisting of a QR code on the front and a machine-readablezone on its back./.