Vietnam yet to resume international flights
	Foreigners entering Vietnam can be quarantined at hotels
	Vietnam Airlines officially resumes scheduled int'l flights starting Sep 18

Accordingly, the flight routes to China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan will be reoperated from September 15; flights to Laos and Cambodia from September 22, VNExpress reported.

There would be two weekly round trips at maximum on each route and the number of flights will be adjusted further depending on actual situations.

People eligible to enter Vietnam include foreigners carrying diplomatic and official passports and their families, experts, investors, business managers, high-skilled workers, and their families, international students, foreign family members of Vietnamese citizens, and Vietnamese citizen returning from abroad.

Aircraft park at Ho Chi Minh City's Tan Son Nhat International Airport in March 2020. Photo: Quynh Tran/ VnExpress.

Passengers must furnish the certificate demonstrating that they tested negative for SARS-CoV-2 within three days prior to boarding the flights. Upon arriving, passengers will continue to go through PCR (polymerase chain reaction) test at the quarantine camps.

Passengers tested negative twice can be considered to shorten their quarantine period to five days instead of 14 days. After that, they will be self-isolated at their houses or working places.

Those entering Vietnam after transiting in a third country must stay in centralized quarantine camps for 14 days and will be tested as required.

The cost of isolation and testing is borne by the incoming person, regardless of whether their nationality is Vietnamese or foreign.

Different Quarantine Options for Foreign Arrivals

Passengers entering Vietnam will be tested with RT-PCR upon landing Photo: Viet Linh/ Zing News.

After taking the necessary screening steps at quarantine camps, foreign arrivals have different options for their continued quarantine.

Foreigners holding official or diplomatic passports and their families will be quarantined at their offices' guest houses and at lodgings of their choice.

Experts, investors, business managers, high-skilled workers, and their families, international students, and family members of Vietnamese citizens will be quarantined at their company offices, factories, or hotels.

Vietnamese citizens will be quarantined at military camps or hotels of their choice.

Those transiting in a third country before entering Vietnam will be quarantined for 14 days, except for special cases directed by the competent authorities.

Foreigners entering Vietnam to work for less than 14 days will not have to be quarantined at centralized facilities, but they must continue complying with the regulations against the virus.

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