More flights with passengers contracting COVID-19 announced

Passengers at Noi Bai International Airport (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA)
– The Ministry of Health on March 17 evening issued an urgent notice on flights with passengers on board contracting COVID-19.

The flights comprise from Dubai to Ho Chi Minh City on March 12, and from Taiwan (China)
to HCM City on March 16.

The ministry asked all the passengers on the flights to contact disease control centres of
cities and provinces for guidance on health monitoring.

Airline
ticket agents are responsible for notifying the passengers who bought tickets
for those flights.

Besides, passengers
who were on flight TG917 from London to Bangkok on March 15 and took a transit
flight to Vietnam will also need to contact the municipal and provincial disease
control centres, the ministry said.

Eight
other flights with passengers on board contracting COVID-19 were announced by the ministry on March 16.

The
number of  cases in Vietnam stands at 66 now, 16 of them have been
discharged from hospital following their full recovery./.