Vietnam to resume int’l commercial flights, apply vaccine passports soon

Spokeswoman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) Le Thi Thu Hang on November 18 provided more information about Vietnam’s plan to resume regular international commercial flights and the application of “vaccine passports”.
Vietnam to resume int’l commercial flights, apply vaccine passports soon ảnh 1Da Nang city welcomes the first foreign tourists boarding a pilot international flight on November 17 after a hiatus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Spokeswomanof the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) Le Thi Thu Hang on November 18provided more information about Vietnam’s plan to resume regular internationalcommercial flights and the application of “vaccine passports”.

At the ministry's regular pressconference, she said under the Government’s Resolution No 128, issued onOctober 11, on safe and flexible adaptation to and effective control of the COVID-19pandemic, relevant agencies have carried out many measures to facilitateproduction and business recovery, boost socio-economic development, and bringpeople’s life back to the new normal.

On November 8, the Ministry ofTransport submitted to the Prime Minister a plan to resume regularinternational flights between now and the third quarter of 2022 in order totackle difficulties facing aviation businesses. The move is also meant topromote economic and tourism recovery in the country and meet people’s demandfor air travel, thus helping with socio-economic recovery and development, andinternational integration in the new normal.

Hang added the Government recently approvedthe MoFA’s proposal on the application of “vaccine passports” and agreed in principleon the expansion of the group of people with vaccine passports allowed to enterVietnam, including overseas Vietnamese and their families coming to the countryto visit relatives and travel as regulated in the Government’s Decree No 82 on visaexemption for overseas Vietnamese and foreigners who are theirwives/husbands/children, or Vietnamese citizens.

The ministry is coordinating with relevantagencies to complete detailed instructions for applying vaccine passports at anappropriate point of time, according to the spokeswoman./.
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