HCM City issues plan of transporting workers back after social distancing eases

The People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City has just approved the municipal Transport Department plan on transporting workers to Ho Chi Minh City as the city, the largest COVID-19 hotspot of Vietnam, began gradually resuming economic activities from October 1.
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HCM City (VNA) - The People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City has justapproved the municipal Transport Department plan on transporting workers to HoChi Minh City as the city, the largest COVID-19 hotspot of Vietnam, began graduallyresuming economic activities from October 1.
Many workers at enterprises in Ho Chi Minh City have returned to their home towns during the prolonged social distancing period in the city, hence the need to bring them back.  

Accordingly, three modes of transportation will be appliedin two stages. The first mode is that the employers will arrange the transportation of  their workers by themselves using over-10-seater vehicles with QR-coded businessregistration certificates issued by the transport department. The vehicles will take workers to the Eastern or Western Bus Stations, then the workers will move fromthe bus stations to their place of residence by taxi licensed by the departmentor by the vehicles registered by their enterprises.

In the second mode, the Management Boards of Export ProcessingZones, Industrial and Hi-Tech Parks will be responsible for coordinating withpassenger transport units to make transportation plans, and the Department ofTransport will consider and issue identification certifications with QR codesand report the transportation plans to the provinces and cities where the workers will depart from. The vehiclescan only stop at places registered in the plan.

The third mode is to organise fixed passenger transportroutes from intercity bus stations of provinces and cities where the workers will depart to the Eastern and WesternBus Stations, with a maximum frequency of four trips per day per route.

The first phase will be implemented from October 1 toOctober 31, with the first and second modes to be applied. Meanwhile, the thirdmode will be added to the second stage (from November).

Before boarding vehicles to return to HCM city, workers are requested to provide a certificate of negativetest result for SARS-CoV-2 within 72 hours, and a certificate of having received at least one dose of vaccine for at least 14 days or a certificate of recovering fromCOVID-19 issued by a competent authority.

The municipal People’s Committee has sent a document toprovinces and centrally-run cities, requesting them to create favourableconditions for workers to travel to HCM City./.

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