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Hai Dinh Ngo, 23, is currently studying at Nottingham Trent University but has got stuck in Vietnam after travelling for a family visit.

Hai Dinh Ngo, 23, is currently studying for a masters in international business at Nottingham Trent University (NTU) and travelled to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in March to take a break from studying and visit his mother.

'As soon as he landed', Hai was whisked to a quarantine facility as the Vietnamese government began to implement lockdown measures.

The international student - who is from Vietnam himself - is still unable to return to Nottingham due to travel restrictions and said he helped translate for people from around 13 different countries.

Hai, along with other detainees in the quarantine facility

Hai said: "We were detained at the airport when we landed, along with other international travellers. During our journey the government had closed borders and said new arrivals would have to go straight into quarantine for around two weeks.

"We're taken to a quarantine facility which was basically a university dormitory on the outskirts of the city that had been converted quickly. There were lots of people wearing PPE so it was a bit frightening.

"Back then people were a lot less aware of the dangers of the virus compared to two months later.

"I asked the management at the camp if I could help them in anyway as most of the government workers couldn't speak English.

Hai, along with other detainees in the quarantine facility

Hai recalled seeing foreign travellers in "tears" and "upset" because of the circumstances.

He added: "There was a moment where one guard was speaking to a crowd and you could tell almost no one understood him because he was speaking in Vietnamese.

"From the first night I basically became an unofficial translator for people from around 13 different countries, including the USA, Brazil, China and Bangladesh.

"There were quite a few Bangladeshi migrant workers coming over too who couldn't speak either language so I called a friend in Nottingham from Bangladesh and got him to translate."

With a few other young Vietnamese people, Hai also helped set up a support group that worked with local restaurants, to donate 5000 meals to feed the staff and detainees at these quarantine facilities around the city.

Hai said: "I'm still stuck here right now because of the international restrictions.

"It's been tough and a big adjustment, but I feel the response here was very good and people mobilised very well.

"It's all been a life-changing experience for me too, in seeing how I can help others.

Hai Dinh Ngo - in the red shirt - helping give out food in the quarantine facility

"It was quite a rough facility in terms of what it had inside, but I do actually miss it. I connected with a lot of people there from all over the world.

"With the knowledge I've got from my course and the motivation this has given me, I want to set up an NGO (non-governmental organisation) to help a lot of the unemployed people in this country. That's something Covid-19 will probably make worse too."

The latest advice from the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism states: "Mandatory medical declarations must be carried by all inbound travellers."

Hai entered the quarantine camp on March 19 and was allowed to leave on April 2. He now has to carry a declaration stating that he is not symptomatic for Covid-19.

He is now living at his family home in Vietnam.

The international business student is engaging with his course in Nottingham remotely from Vietnam and still plans on graduating this summer.

Dr Ofelia A. Palermo, programme leader for MSc international business, at NTU's Nottingham Business School, said:

"Hai is a testimony of what a student can do with the synergy between knowledge, will and passion."

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