Vietnam officially suspends licensing inbound flights from countries and territories where the new variant of SARS-CoV-2 infection and the situation of the Covid-19 pandemic is developing complicatedly. Flights between the UK and South Africa are the first to be affected.

Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has requested to suspend inbound flights from countries and territories where the new Covid-19 mutation has been detected such as UK and South Africa.