Van Don Airport welcomes first int’l flight after one-month shutdown

Van Don International Airport in the northern province of Quang Ninh welcomed its first international flight on March 12 after being closed for more than a month due to COVID-19.
Van Don Airport welcomes first int’l flight after one-month shutdown ảnh 1At Van Don international airport (Photo: VNA)
Quang Ninh (VNA) - Van Don International Airport in thenorthern province of Quang Ninh welcomed its first international flight onMarch 11 after being closed for more than a month due to COVID-19.

Departing from Japan, the Vietjet Air Airbus A321 landed at the airportwith 193 Vietnamese citizens aboard.

The airport welcomed another flight from Japan carrying morethan 160 Vietnamese citizens in the evening of the same day.

Passengers are primarily students and workers who have expired visas or metwith difficulties in accommodation, as well as other people at a disadvantage.

They had their body temperatures checked before departure and wore masksduring the flight.

Van Don welcomed more than 180 flights from pandemic-hit areas last yearcarrying over 40,000 Vietnamese citizens and foreign experts.

In January, before the temporary shutdown, it welcomed one flight fromJapan and four from the Republic of Korea bringing RoK experts to Vietnam towork.

The airport had to close on January29 after an airport security staff was confirmed positive for the coronavirusSARS-CoV-2 that causes the COVID-19 pandemic.

Airlines have also offered discounts to mark the resumption of HCM City -Van Don flights./.
VNA

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