A working session between leaders of Hai Phong port city and Chinese businesses on COVID-19 prevention (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – The Ministry of Labour, Invalidsand Social Affairs has stated that in the time to come, it will suspend thegranting of new working licenses to foreign labourers who come from areas hit bythe acute respiratory disease caused by a novel coronavirus (COVID-19) duringthe time of epidemic announced by Vietnam.
A representative of the ministry further said besidesserious measures to fight the disease, the ministry is also attachingimportance to the communications work and asking localities to continue reviewing,controlling the number of Chinese labourers, and advising those who came backto their country to not return to Vietnam to work. If they return for work,they must be quarantined for 14 days as prescribed by medical authorities.
The exit by Vietnamese labourers working abroad should alsobe postponed if needed, the representative added.
Updates by the 63 provinces and cities show that as of4:00pm of February 20, there were 34,423 Chinese labourers who worked inVietnam, 26,904 of them came back to China for the traditional lunar New Yearwhich fell in late January./.
A representative of the ministry further said besidesserious measures to fight the disease, the ministry is also attachingimportance to the communications work and asking localities to continue reviewing,controlling the number of Chinese labourers, and advising those who came backto their country to not return to Vietnam to work. If they return for work,they must be quarantined for 14 days as prescribed by medical authorities.
The exit by Vietnamese labourers working abroad should alsobe postponed if needed, the representative added.
Updates by the 63 provinces and cities show that as of4:00pm of February 20, there were 34,423 Chinese labourers who worked inVietnam, 26,904 of them came back to China for the traditional lunar New Yearwhich fell in late January./.
VNA
