The Hanoitimes - Vietnam has decided to tighten regulations regarding foreign arrivals and their quarantine period. Vietnam will tighten foreign arrivals and toughen up border control measures to prevent illegal entry ahead of Tet holiday. The order was made by the National Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control at a meeting chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam on January 21. The committee announced the completion of a streamlined information system to supervise the medical status of upcoming arrivals from pandemic-stricken countries. Under the new system, overseas citizens will fill out a health declaration at the moment they sign up for repatriation flights and provide an address of their stay after finishing quarantine. Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam presides over a meeting of the National Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control. Photo: Dinh Nam The foreigners include experts, investors, business managers, skilled workers and their family members, Mr. Dam said. He requested that concentrated quarantine sites must strictly comply with instructions of the Ministry of Health and those who violate quarantine rules must be strictly fined. The deputy prime minister also asked localities to strengthen Covid-19 prevention and control measures and strictly enforce the measures ahead of and during the Lunar New Year celebrations. Localities across the country were asked to contact families of the returnees to update their health conditions and quarantine them if necessary, Mr. Dam added. At the meeting, the Ministry of Health called for continuing the consistent strategy of outbreak prevention, detection, quarantining, zoning off, stamping out, and effective treatment. Hoang Minh Duc, the deputy head of the General Department of Preventive Medicine under the Ministry of Health, said many countries have maintained strong measures to curb the spread of coronavirus and its variants. …
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