Around 226 Vietnamese workers stranded in Uzbekistan due to the Covid-19 pandemic will be repatriated soon, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Vietnamese people check in for a repatriation flight at the airport in Moscow on May 12.
The ministry on July 24 worked with concerned ministries, agencies and the company that sent Vietnamese workers to Uzbekistan on the workers' call for help to return home.
The 226 workers who are working for China Petroleum Jili Chemical Engineering and Construction Co.,Ltd (JCC) in Karshi city, Uzbekistan, recently sent a letter to the Vietnamese Embassy in Russia to seek for help.
In the letter, the workers said they were facing difficulties in daily life, at work, and in Covid-19 prevention and control, therefore they called for help from the embassy to return to Vietnam soon.
"After hearing about the situation, the Consular Department under the Foreign Ministry coordinated with the embassy and the company that sent the workers to Uzbekistan to clarify the case," the ministry said.
The Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam has co-ordinated with airlines to conduct more than 60 flights repatriating nearly 16,000 Vietnamese citizens from almost 50 countries and territories due to the Covid-19 pandemic, said Dinh Viet Thang, head of the Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam in an interview on July 22 with the Sai Gon Giai Phong Newspaper.
Thang said that from now to the end of August, the aviation sector will continue working with diplomatic and military agencies to conduct 50 more flights to bring some 13,000 Vietnamese citizens home.
"The demand is huge while the capacity of the aviation sector and quarantine centres is limited," he said. "Agencies have to give priority to children under 18, the elderly, pregnant women, people with health problems, workers with expired labour contracts and no accommodation, students without residence due to dormitory disclosure and others in especially difficult circumstances."
