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Over 350 Vietnamese citizens from Japan were brought home safely on August 14.

Nearly 240 Vietnamese citizens were brought home from Malaysia on a flight of budget carrier Vietjet Air on August 13.

Authorities of Vietnam and Taiwan (China), the Vietnam Economic and Cultural Office in Taipei and budget carrier Vietjet worked together to carry 230 Vietnamese citizens home on August 7.

Vietnam recorded 37 more cases positive for the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 on July 31, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

“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.

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 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 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.

The southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau is to have 686 more foreign experts working locally soon, the provincial Health Department revealed at a recent meeting of the local steering committee for COVID-19 control and prevention.

Thailand’s National Security Council is expected to present a proposal for the extension of the state of emergency to the Prime Minister on April 27, with some current restrictions to be relaxed to allow some businesses and daily activities to resume amid the COVID-19 crisis.

Bamboo Airways, Vietnam’s newest airline, has announced it will reduce the frequency of domestic flights amid the critical time of COVID-19 fight as directed by the Government and Ministry of Transport.

National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines has announced that it will reduce the frequency of domestic flights between now and April 15 in compliance with the Prime Minister’s Directive to fight COVID-19.

The Vietnam Maritime Administration (VMA) has reported that the total arrivals of vessels leaving or entering Vietnamese seaports from China or countries hit by COVID-19 outbreak neared 6,790 as of the early March.

The Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang has said the ministry asked the Vietnamese Embassy in Berlin, Germany, to work with the host authorities to ensure legitimate rights and interests of Vietnamese citizens and stay ready to conducts citizen protection measures if necessary.

All passengers, crewmembers and staff, who had contact with a Japanese passenger tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 on Vietnam Airlines’ VN340 flight, have been put into quarantine, the Health Ministry reported on March 4.

Holland America Line, the owner of the ship MS Westerdam, has said the last 781 of its passengers are expected to leave Cambodia on February 20 via Phnom Penh International Airport, the Khmer Times reported.

The crew members on the flight to take home 30 Vietnamese citizens from the epicentre of the nCoV outbreak in Wuhan were proud to have completed their assigned tasks and mission.

Malaysia on February 3 sent an AirAsia flight to China’s Wuhan city to bring home 141 citizens, and donated 500,000 pairs of gloves to China to assist in the fight against the novel coronavirus.