The repatriation of Vietnamese workers from abroad due to health reasons, expired labour contracts, occupational accidents, or pregnancies faces numerous difficulties.
The Ministry of Health (MoH) has warned localities to heighten vigilance to the maximum level as the total number of COVID-19 cases passed the 1,000-benchmark after new infections surged in the second wave.
Vietnam reported six more COVID-19 cases from 6:00 to 18:00 on August 18, including four community infections in the central city of Da Nang and two imported cases.
Vietnam had 12 new COVID-19 infections to report on August 17 evening, including one imported case, announced the National Steering Committee on COVID-19 Prevention and Control.
All 20 COVID-19 patients returning from Equatorial Guinea are now in good health, said deputy director of the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases Nguyen Trung Cap on August 3.
Young Vietnamese at home and abroad are striving to contribute to the country’s fight against COVID-19 in their own way, believing that everyone has a role to play for the sake of their homeland.
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has requested authorities to give the top priority to localising and soon wiping out the COVID-19 hotbed in the central city of Da Nang.
A special Vietnam Airlines flight brought 219 Vietnamese workers home from Equatorial Guinea in central Africa on July 29. Of the workers, 129 have tested positive for COVID-19. It was not the first time Vietnamese people stranded in a foreign country had been brought home, with such repatriation flights being testament to Vietnam’s motto of “No one left behind”.
A special flight carrying 219 Vietnamese citizens previously living in Equatorial Guinea landed safely at Hanoi’s Noi Bai International Airport a couple of days ago.
“We’re home shortly!” was the sentence Vietnam Airlines’ flight attendants repeatedly told Vietnamese citizens on a flight back to Vietnam from Equatorial Guinea a couple of days ago.
In an exclusive interview with the Vietnam News Agency, flight attendant Nguyen Huu Trung shared his experience of working at the section for passengers who tested positive for the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 during the flight.
After days of anxious waiting, Bui Dang Khoa finally made it back to Vietnam on a special flight that brought 219 Vietnamese workers home from Equatorial Guinea.
On July 29 afternoon, the Vietnam Airlines flight repatriating Vietnamese citizens from Equatorial Guinea landed. All passengers were sent to the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases for quarantine.
Relevant Vietnamese agencies along with the Vietnamese embassy in Angola, concurrently accredited to Equatorial Guinea, and Vietnam Airlines coordinated with counterparts in Equatorial Guinea to bring 219 Vietnamese citizens home safely on July 28-29.
Relevant Vietnamese agencies along with the Vietnamese embassy in Angola, concurrently accredited to Equatorial Guinea, and Vietnam Airlines coordinated with counterparts in Equatorial Guinea to bring 219 Vietnamese citizens home safely on July 28-29.
A flight of the national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines left the Noi Bai International Airport at 7:45 am on July 28 for the Bata Airport in Equatorial Guinea to repatriate 219 stranded Vietnamese workers.
A special flight with strict application of COVID-19 prevention and control measures from the Noi Bai International Airport to Bata Airport in Equatorial Guinea will bring home 219 Vietnamese citizens.
A delegation of two doctors and two nurses of the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases headed to Equatorial Guinea to bring home 219 Vietnamese citizens, who are working for three Vietnamese companies in the host country, of whom 120 have tested positive for the coronavirus SARS-nCOV-2.
A working group of the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases, on July 28, boarded an unprecedented flight to Equatorial Guinea, which will repatriate 219 Vietnamese workers, more than half of them having tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
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