Nearly 300 Vietnamese citizens return from the US and Japan

Nearly 300 Vietnamese citizens from the US and Japan were brought home on a repatriation flight which landed at the Cam Ranh International Airport in the south central coastal province of Khanh Hoa on July 30.

Nearly 300 Vietnamese citizens from the US and Japan were brought home on a repatriation flight which landed at the Cam Ranh International Airport in the south central coastal province of Khanh Hoa on July 30.

Nearly 300 Vietnamese citizens from the US and Japan return home on July 30. Photo by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the flight was arranged by Vietnamese authorities in the three countries, and the national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines.

Passengers included the elderly, pregnant woman, people with illness, stranded tourists, labourers with expired contracts and without residence, interns, students without residence due to the closure of dormitories and other disadvantaged cases.

Right after landing at the airport, all the passengers and the flight crew members were given health check-ups and then sent to quarantine areas in accordance with current regulations.

The same day, nearly 240 Vietnamese citizens from Myanmar also landed safely at the Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City.

From April 10 to July 31, local agencies coordinated with Vietnam’s representative agencies overseas to launch 75 flights, bringing home about 18,342 Vietnamese citizens stranded abroad due to Covid-19 pandemic.

Under the Prime Minister’s instructions, Vietnamese agencies, Vietnamese representative agencies abroad and domestic airlines will continue to conduct flights to bring overseas Vietnamese citizens back to Vietnam.