A passenger preparing to take a Hanoi-HCM City flight has sample collected for testing (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – The rapid COVID-19
testing service is now available for passengers at Terminal T1 of Noi Bai
International Airport in Hanoi.
The service has been provided since July 10 by
the healthcare centre of Soc Son district at the terminal, which handles
domestic flights, from 7am to 5pm every day, and results are available after 30
minutes.
The (CAAV)
regulated that all passengers boarding flights to or from Ho Chi Minh City must
produce a valid negative test result for the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.
Data from show
that the number of passengers flying between Hanoi and HCM City accounted for
about 30 percent of the total passengers this airport handled recently.
Before the restriction on the number of
passengers travelling each day on the Hanoi – HCM City route was imposed, more
than 3,100 passengers departed for or arrived from HCM City at Noi Bai Airport
each day.
The figure dropped to 960 on July 9, when the
restriction began to take effect.
According to the CAAV rules, staff members of
airports, especially Tan Son Nhat International Airport in HCM City, and
Vietnamese airlines operating flights to/from HCM City must receive at least
one dose of COVID-19 vaccine or have a negative test result within
72 hours.
After two vaccination phases in June and July,
100 percent of frontline personnel and most of other employees at Noi Bai Airport
have got the first shot of vaccine./.
Source: VietnamPlus
