At around 10:30 pm on Tuesday, border guards of Kien Giang Province were informed of a boat travelling in the direction from Cambodia to Phu Quoc District. There were a group of people on the boat.
The people were sent to a local quarantine site in Kien Giang
The border guards then chased and stopped the boat, catching five Vietnamese people who worked in Cambodia. The five, however, failed to show their legal entry papers.
The group consists of a man and four women, aged between 18 and 45.
The man in the group transported the four others from Cambodia to Phu Quoc.
The people admitted their illegal entry, saying that they did so to avoid Covid-19 in Cambodia.
Local authorities sent them to a local quarantine site for Covid-19 prevention as regulated.
The case is under the investigation.
