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36 flights carry over 2,000 Vietnamese citizens back home

From January 31 to February 7, foreign airlines conducted 36 regular and irregular flights transporting 2,055 Vietnamese passengers from Taiwan (China), Cambodia, Singapore, Thailand, Japan and the Middle East and Turkey back home.
36 flights carry over 2,000 Vietnamese citizens back home ảnh 1Aircraft of Japan's ANA (Photo: Kyodo)
Hanoi (VNA) - From January 31 to February 7, foreign airlines conducted36 regular and irregular flights transporting 2,055 Vietnamese passengers fromTaiwan (China), Cambodia, Singapore, Thailand, Japan and the Middle East andTurkey back home.

The information was released by the Ministry of Transport onFebruary 7.

Earlier on January 31, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh requestedthe ministry to urgently permit foreign airlines carrying stranded Vietnamese citizenshome and issue related guidance.

Right after that, the ministry sent a document to the CivilAviation Authority of Vietnam to actively coordinate with agencies and units ofrelevant ministries, sectors and localities to urgently issue permits for theairlines to transport Vietnamese citizens back home, especially from areaswhere many Vietnamese are still stranded./.
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