Health ministry announces seven more flights with COVID-19 cases

An area for measuring body temperature at the Noi Bai international airport (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – The
Ministry of Health issued an urgent notice on March 25 morning on seven flights
landing in Vietnam with passengers testing positive for the novel coronavirus
SARS-CoV-2.

They included three flights on March 15 which are Emirates’ EK364 from Dubai to
Ho Chi Minh City, Aeroflot’s SU290 from Moscow to Hanoi, and Thai Airways’ TG560
from Bangkok to Hanoi.

Also in the list are Royal Brunei
Airlines’ BI381 from Brunei to HCM City on March 17; Emirates’ EK392 from Dubai
to HCM City and All Nippon Airways’ NH831 from Japan to HCM City both on March
19; and Japan Airlines’ JL751 from Tokyo to Hanoi on March 20.

The ministry called on all on the above mentioned 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.

As of late March 24, recorded 134
cases, of which 17 have fully recovered./.