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More than 340 Vietnamese citizens were brought home from Norway on a flight of Qatar Airways on October 16-17.

The reopening of international flights is seen as a way to facilitate people’s travelling and economic development, but it is a must to manage risks related to the COVID-19 pandemic. ​

“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.

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.

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 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.

Following the direction of the Government, Vietjet has cooperated with Vietnamese authorities and representative offices abroad to bring Vietnamese citizens home in response to the citizens’ wishes and in line with the country’s quarantine capacity.

More than 340 Vietnamese citizens in the US were brought home safely from San Francisco airport on June 7 and 8.

More than 300 Vietnamese in Sweden, Finland and other European countries were brought home safely from Stockholm and Helsinki airports on June 5 and 6.

Overseas Vietnamese in Thailand and the Republic of Korea have donated 704 million VND (30,000 USD) to support the fight against the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the homeland.

Vietnamese authorities and representative agencies overseas will continue to arrange flights bringing Vietnamese citizens facing difficulties from COVID-19 home.

The Ministry of Transport affirms it has not studied exclusive protectionism policies for any enterprise.

The Foreign Ministry has called on Vietnamese citizens abroad to refrain from travels between countries and to Vietnam in current time, amid the complicated developments of COVID-19.

Citizen protection in areas affected by the COVID-19 outbreak is one of the top priorities of the Vietnamese Government, the Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang told a regular press conference in Hanoi on March 5.

The government has ordered authorised agencies to strictly handle any individuals or organisations that illegally send Vietnamese citizens abroad.

The Ministry of Public Security has directed the Social Order-Related Crime Investigating Police Department to work with the central provinces of Ha Tinh and Nghe An to verify information of local residents who reportedly went missing while moving from France to the UK.

Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Quoc Dung has stated that the 33rd ASEAN Summit and related meetings in Singapore have been successful and Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc actively participated in all summit activities.

The Embassy of Vietnam in Malaysia has sent a diplomatic note to relevant ministries and agencies in Malaysia requesting official information about the detention of two Vietnamese fishing vessels.

A Vietnamese businesswoman who was arrested in the Philippines for carrying a bullet in her purse has returned home, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Le Hai Binh has said.