Flyers from/to HCM City must provide negative COVID-19 test result: CAAV
Air passengers are required to present a valid negative coronavirus test result before travelling from/to Ho Chi Minh City, according to a new directive by the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) on intensifying COVID-19 response.
Passengers are instructed to maintain a distance of at least 2 metres from each other at HCM City's Tan Son Nhat International Airport. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Air passengers are required topresent a valid negative coronavirus test result before travelling from/to HoChi Minh City, according to a new directive by the Civil Aviation Authority ofVietnam (CAAV) on intensifying COVID-19 response.
The CAAV requests all airport employees, especially thoseworking at HCM City’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport, to get at least onedose of COVID-19 vaccine or have proof of a negative COVID-19 test conducted nomore than 72 hours. Both rapid antigen and PCR test evidences are accepted.
The same policy is applicable to aircrew serving onflights from/to HCM City, who are also advised to refrain from leaving theairport to travel to the city. The aircrew should stay inside Tan Son NhatInternational Airport before boarding the next flight, the directive says,adding that surfaces of air cargoes from/to the city must be disinfected.
It also ordered a halt of international flights to HCMCity, except for those receiving permission of the National Steering Committeeon COVID-19 Prevention and Control.
The CAAV requests airlines to instruct passengers to keepphysical distance at airports, and increase the number of in-service airsidetransfer buses to make sure their passenger load does not exceed 50 percent ofseating capacity per trip.
On July 8 afternoon, the authority issued an urgentnotice requesting a reduction of seats available for sales on flights betweenHCM City and Hanoi, following a spike in COVID-19 cases in the country’ssouthern hub over the recent weeks.
Accordingly, national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines mustsell no more than 700 seats on its flights between the two major cities in eachdirection daily while the limit for Pacific Airlines, Bamboo Airways andVietjet Air ranges from 200 – 400 seats per day.
There are no restrictions on cargo flights, the noticeadds.
The policy is applied from 0:00 hours July 9 throughoutJuly 23./.
Ho Chi Minh City will apply social distancing measures under the Prime Minister's Directive 16 for 15 days starting 0am on July 9, said Nguyen Thanh Phong, Chairman of the municipal People's Committee, at a meeting with the city’s Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control on July 7.
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Passengers are instructed to maintain a distance of at least 2 metres from each other at HCM City's Tan Son Nhat International Airport. (Photo: VNA)
