Thursday, 16/04/2020 08:31 (GMT+7)
About 100 British citizens have returned home from Vietnam and Cambodia on a Vietnam Airlines flight specially arranged by the British Embassy in Vietnam and Vietnamese authorities.
Photo for illustration (Source: vietnamairlines.com)
The flight, which departed Vietnam on April 13th, brought the British tourists who had been stuck in Vietnam and Cambodia because of the COVID-19 pandemic. They included a number of COVID-19 patients who have recovered after treatment in Vietnam.
Moreover, a number of Vietnamese nationals living in the UK came back on the return flight which landed at Van Don Airport in the northern province of Quang Ninh on April 15th morning.
Vietnamese citizens returning home included Vietnamese students and children under 18 years old, disadvantaged and elderly people. After landing in Vietnam, all passengers were immediately sent to concentrated quarantine areas for health supervision in line with the country's regulations.
The flight was arranged as part of efforts to help foreign diplomatic agencies in Vietnam carry out citizen protection measures.
In addition, the flight also transported medical masks as gifts from the Vietnamese Government and people to the United Kingdom.
According to the Prime Minister’s direction, Vietnam’s diplomatic representative agencies abroad have been reviewing and drawing up plans to bring home a number of Vietnamese people living overseas with special conditions.
Priority will be given to children under 18, the elderly and sick people in line with the country’s concentrated quarantine capacity./.
BTA