A passenger preparing to take a Hanoi-HCM City flight has sample collected for COVID-19 testing (Photo: VNA)The service has been provided since July 10 bythe healthcare centre of Soc Son district at the terminal, which handlesdomestic flights, from 7am to 5pm every day, and results are available after 30minutes.
The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV)regulated that all passengers boarding flights to or from Ho Chi Minh City mustproduce a valid negative test result for the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.
Data from Noi Bai International Airport showthat the number of passengers flying between Hanoi and HCM City accounted forabout 30 percent of the total passengers this airport handled recently.
Before the restriction on the number ofpassengers travelling each day on the Hanoi - HCM City route was imposed, morethan 3,100 passengers departed for or arrived from HCM City at Noi Bai Airporteach day.
The figure dropped to 960 on July 9, when therestriction began to take effect.
According to the CAAV rules, staff members ofairports, especially Tan Son Nhat International Airport in HCM City, andVietnamese airlines operating flights to/from HCM City must receive at leastone dose of COVID-19 vaccine or have a negative coronavirus test result within72 hours.
After two vaccination phases in June and July,100 percent of frontline personnel and most of other employees at Noi Bai Airporthave got the first shot of vaccine./.
VNA
