A health worker is delivering leaflets on nCoV to visitors to Ha Long Bay, Quang Ninh province. (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) - The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism on January 29 asked tourism sectors of localities nationwide to pay special heed to well controlling and keeping closewatch on the acuterespiratory disease caused by a new coronavirus originated from Wuhan, China (2019-nCoV).
In an urgent telegram issued on the same day, Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Ngoc Thienrequested authorities of provinces and cities across the country to direct local tourism departments and grassrootsauthorities to do this work effectively.
The telegram said localities need to ask international travel businesses tosuspend tours for visitors from localities that reported cases of nCoV, and donot bring tourists from affected areas in China into Vietnam.
Synchronous management measures should be devised to closely monitor health situation of Chinese tourists who areon their tours of Vietnam and their schedule, it stressed.
Travel agencies, accommodation establishments and tourism services providers mustdo their best to ensure absolute safety for tourists and their tourism workers, the telegram said.
It noted that if any case of suspected infection is detected, they need to actively coordinate with local medical establishments to carry out quarantine measures in line with instructions by the Ministry of Health,
Communication campaigns should be launched to warn people not to travel toareas affected by the epidemic, it added./.
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