Thursday, 09/07/2020 17:21 (GMT+7)
The Vietnamese Embassy in Angola was requested to verify and guide over 213 Vietnamese workers in distress in Equatorial Guinea due to COVID-19 and seek to repatriate them back to Vietnam, VOV citing Ministry of Foreign Affairs on July 8th.
Photo for illustration (Source: VNA)
Accordingly, the workers are working for Sendje hydropower plant in the Republic of Equatorial Guinea under labour contracts between Duglas Alliance Ltd of the UK and two Vietnamese companies, CMVIETNAM and LILAMA 10.
In a report to the Vietnamese Embassy in Angola, both CMVIETNAM and LILAMA 10 said in the context of the complex development of the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa, they had worked with the general contractor and local health agencies to strictly take preventive measures, including testing and quarantining suspect cases, to ensure Vietnamese workers’ safety.
The Vietnamese Embassy in Angola is requested to verify, keep in close touch, and guide the citizens with necessary prevention measures.
In addition, the representative diplomatic agencies are required to work closely with relevant companies and local authorities to protect the health of Vietnamese citizens and create favorable conditions for them to return home at an earliest possible time.
Due to the complex development of COVID-19 globally, Vietnamese representative agencies abroad give top priority to citizen protection, while keeping in regular contact with the overseas Vietnamese community, answering the citizens’ questions concerning changes in the immigration policy of Vietnam and the host country, and requesting local authorities to take care of unfortunate cases of infection, confirmed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In the coming time, Vietnamese agencies, Vietnamese representative agencies abroad and domestic airlines will continue to conduct flights to bring overseas Vietnamese citizens stranded overseas back to Vietnam under the Prime Minister’s instructions./.
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