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Foreign Ministry plans 13 repatriation flights for March The Saigon Times Vietnamese citizens living overseas on board a repatriation flight. During the first half of March, 13 repatriation flights will transport Vietnamese citizens home from abroad amid the Covid-19 pandemic – PHOTO: VNA HCMC – During the first half of March, 13 repatriation flights will transport Vietnamese citizens home from abroad amid the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ plan recently sent to Vietnam’s national aviation authority. Under the plan of the ministry’s Consular Department, two flights, carrying 343 passengers each, will be operated on March 5 to bring citizens from Japan and Taiwan home, local media reported. On March 6, two flights will transport a total number of 480 passengers from the Philippines and Malaysia. Another flight is set to carry 360 passengers from Singapore the following day. On March 8, there will be one flight carrying 355 passengers from the United States and one flight from France and Spain with 343 passengers on board. Between March 9 and 14, the country will operate one daily flight transporting 343 passengers from the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Germany, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and Russia. To operate the flights after the plan is approved by the prime minister, the Consular Department suggested the Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV) work with airlines to map out detailed flight schedules. CAAV needs to inform the department of the schedules and relevant issues so the latter can work with Vietnam’s representative agencies overseas to execute the plan as well as notify Vietnamese citizens travelling on these flights about the plan being approved. Further, CAAV was told to urge carriers operating the flights to announce air fares, requirements for baggage, payment methods to the Consular Department and Vietnam’s representative bodies overseas. …

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The Hanoitimes - Nearly 2,200 people in Vietnam have so far been tested positive for Covid-19 after a year the virus broke out in the country. Four coronavirus variants have been so far found in Vietnam since the detection of SARS-CoV-2 which was firstly broke out in China’s Wuhan City in early 2020. So far, four coronavirus variants detected in Vietnam. Photo: VNExpress After a year of the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the country bordering with China has reported the UK variant, the “B lineage” and called B.1.1.7, the variant firstly found in South Africa, the “A lineage” and referred to as A.23.1 firstly detected in Rwanda in October 2020, and D614G known more familiarly to scientists as “G.” The UK variant Vietnam’s Ministry of Health announced the first case infected with the UK variant on January 2, 2021. The patient returned to the country from the UK on December 22, 2020. The variant was then detected in the Hai Duong outbreak, Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long said at an online meeting on February 2. Dr Nguyen Trung Cap, deputy director of the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases, said symptoms in 165 Covid-19 patients in Hai Duong showed that their lungs easily damaged than those infected with SARS-CoV-2 before. Prof Sharon Peacock, chief of the UK’s genetic surveillance program has predicted that the mutation found in Kent will “sweep the world.” South Africa variant The National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology (NIHE) on January 30 said that Vietnam’s scientists detected the Covid strain in and 25-year-old South African expert who entered Vietnam on December 19, 2020. The man, who departed South Africa and took transit in Doha, Qatar, was tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 on December 23, 2020. He is under treatment at the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Hanoi. First identified in Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa, in samples dating back to the beginning of October 2020, the South Africa virus variant …

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Vietjet crew members wear face masks to prevent COVID-19 (Photo courtesy of Vietjet) Ho Chi Minh City (VNA) –  Vietjet has been certified with seven-stars , the world’s highest rating for COVID-19 compliance for global airlines by AirlineRatings . AirlineRatings, the world’s famous airline safety and product rating website, also named other renowned airlines such as Emirates, Etihad Airways, British Airways, Qatar Airways, Delta Air Lines, Jetblue, Lufthansa, Southwest, Air New Zealand, and KLM on its seven-star list. For full compliance, airlines must have seven criteria in place, including website information on COVID-19 procedures; face masks for passengers; deep clean of aircraft and protection equipment for the crew. The criteria also focuses on social distancing and modified meal services. Vietjet Vice President To Viet Thang said: “Our modern fleet is equipped with HEPA (High Efficiency Particulate Air system), which can filter up to 99.7 percent of dust, bacterias and viruses. Also, Vietjet ’s full compliance of safety standards together with staff’s cooperation have contributed to our safe transportation of millions of passengers during the escalating COVID-19 outbreak in Vietnam. Especially, none of our employees have been infected with COVID-19 so far.” The Corona Prevention Commitee of Vietjet, teamed up by doctors, health and safety experts, has been working effectively to ensure the airline’s utmost safety, according to Thang. In addition to providing mask and protection equipment for frontliners such as pilots, flight attendants, ground staff, technicians, the airline also quickly installed the isolation shield with sanitizers at all of its check-in counters. Aircraft disinfection and sterilisation is carried out daily. Vietjet also plans to vaccinate all staff in the near future. AirlineRatings also recently named Vietjet in “the World’s Top 10 Safest & Best Low-Cost Airlines 2021”. Vietjet certified with …

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