Vietnam News Today (October 29): Vietnam records 4,876 new local Covid cases; Vietnam ready to welcome sport teams to SEA Games 31 in mid-May 2022; HCMC vaccinates 40,000 children against Covid; No seven-day quarantine planned for foreign tourists with negative Covid tests.

Vietnam planned to receive international tourists with vaccine passports in the Mekong Delta Province of Kien Giang’s Phu Quoc Island by air, via charter flights or commercial flights from October 2021.