Since the beginning of January, border officers in Lang Son Province have detained 421 people who were found illegally crossing the border in the areas from China.
According to local authorities, all of them are Vietnamese people from various provinces and cities who had gone to Chinese to work and now wanted to return home for Tet Holiday.
On January 17, border officers in Lao Cai Province also detained 35 people for illegally entering the area from China.
35 people were detained for illegally entering from China to Lao Cai Province on January 17.
The people including 17 men and 18 women aged between 17-21 are from ethnic minority groups in the province.
The group told the border officers that they illegally crossed the border to China last September and worked at timber processing factories in Guangxi Province. They now wanted to return home for Tet Holiday.
Local authorities have conducted health check-ups and sent all those people to quarantine areas following the government's regulations on Covid-19 prevention and control.
