Visitors to Vietnam don’t need to show COVID-19 vaccination, recovery certificates: MoH proposes
The Ministry of Health (MoH) is proposing that people can enter Vietnam without certificates of COVID-19 vaccination or recovery but need to implement anti-pandemic measures.
Air passengers wait to handle entry procedures at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The Ministryof Health (MoH) is proposing that people can enter Vietnam without certificatesof COVID-19 vaccination or recovery but need to implement anti-pandemic measures.
The proposal has been sent toministries, ministry-level and governmental agencies, and provincial-leveladministrations for recommendations.
Accordingly, the MoH suggested thatair passengers need to show a certified negative result of RT-PCR/RT-LAMPtests within 72 hours or of rapid antigen tests within 24 hours prior to theirdeparture.
They also don’t need to undergopost-entry testing but have to follow COVID-19 prevention and control measureslike those who have been staying in Vietnam.
For people entering Vietnam by other means of transportation, those who alreadyhad a negative test result for the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 will followanti-pandemic rules like air passengers.
Air passengers at the Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi. (Photo: VNA)
Those without a negative test resultwill undergo either RT-PCR/RT-LAMP or rapid antigen test within the first 24hours of their entry. They will continue following anti-pandemic measures if thetest result is negative, but have to report to local health authorities toreceive instructions if it is positive, the MoH proposed.
All people entering Vietnam willhave to make health declarations prior to their entry and use the health declarationapp PC-COVID throughout their stay in the country.
At border gates, people showing COVID-19 symptoms like fever, cough, sorethroat, running nose, aches and pains, tiredness, cold, and loss of taste orsmell have to immediately report to local health units so as to take responsemeasures. They must seriously adhere to the 5K principle (khau trang - wearing facemasks, khu khuan - disinfection, khoang cach - keeping distance, khai bao -making health declaration, khong tu tap - no gathering,) when moving from theports of entry to accommodation facilities and minimise stops along the way.
The MoH also proposed children under 2 not have to take COVID-19 tests, and those who haven’t been vaccinated or infected with SARS-CoV-2 can jointheir parents and relatives in activities outside their accommodationfacilities./.
Foreign visitors and overseas Vietnamese returning home can take regular commercial flights from now to March 15 when Vietnam fully reopens tourism activities, instead of charter flights as previously.
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MoCST) has proposed to let foreign visitors test for COVID-19 using rapid antigen test kits and those who have negative testing results travel freely when they are in Vietnam, as the country plans to welcome foreign tourists back from March 15.
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Air passengers wait to handle entry procedures at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi. (Photo: VNA) 
Air passengers at the Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi. (Photo: VNA) 
