Air passengers wait to handle entry procedures at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi. (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – The Ministry
of Health (MoH) is proposing that people can enter Vietnam without certificates
of or recovery but need to implement anti-pandemic measures.
The proposal has been sent to
ministries, ministry-level and governmental agencies, and provincial-level
administrations for recommendations.
Accordingly, the MoH suggested that
air passengers need to show a certified negative result of RT-PCR/RT-LAMP
tests within 72 hours or of rapid antigen tests within 24 hours prior to their
departure.
They also don’t need to undergo
post-entry testing but have to follow COVID-19 prevention and control measures
like those who have been staying in Vietnam.
For people entering Vietnam by other means of transportation, those who already
had a negative test result for the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 will follow
anti-pandemic rules like air passengers.
Air passengers at the Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi. (Photo: VNA)Those without a negative test result
will undergo either RT-PCR/RT-LAMP or rapid antigen test within the first 24
hours of their entry. They will continue following anti-pandemic measures if the
test result is negative, but have to report to local health authorities to
receive instructions if it is positive, the MoH proposed.
All people entering Vietnam will
have to make health declarations prior to their entry and use the health declaration
app PC-COVID throughout their stay in the country.
At border gates, people showing symptoms like fever, cough, sore
throat, running nose, aches and pains, tiredness, cold, and loss of taste or
smell have to immediately report to local health units so as to take response
measures. They must seriously adhere to the 5K principle (khau trang – wearing face
masks, khu khuan – disinfection, khoang cach – keeping distance, khai bao –
making health declaration, khong tu tap – no gathering,) when moving from the
ports of entry to accommodation facilities and minimise stops along the way.
The MoH also proposed children under 2 not have to take COVID-19 tests, and those who haven’t been vaccinated or infected with SARS-CoV-2 can join
their parents and relatives in activities outside their accommodation
facilities./.
Source: VietnamPlus
