Health ministry announces seven more flights with COVID-19 cases
The Ministry of Health issued an urgent notice on March 25 morning on seven flights landing in Vietnam with passengers testing positive for the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.
An area for measuring body temperature at the Noi Bai international airport (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) - TheMinistry of Health issued an urgent notice on March 25 morning on seven flightslanding in Vietnam with passengers testing positive for the novel coronavirusSARS-CoV-2.
They included three flights on March 15 which are Emirates’ EK364 from Dubai toHo Chi Minh City, Aeroflot’s SU290 from Moscow to Hanoi, and Thai Airways’ TG560from Bangkok to Hanoi.
Also in the list are Royal BruneiAirlines’ BI381 from Brunei to HCM City on March 17; Emirates’ EK392 from Dubaito HCM City and All Nippon Airways’ NH831 from Japan to HCM City both on March19; and Japan Airlines’ JL751 from Tokyo to Hanoi on March 20.
The ministry called on all passengers on the above mentioned flights to contactdisease control centres of cities and provinces for guidance on healthmonitoring.
Airline ticket agents are responsible fornotifying the passengers who bought tickets for those flights.
As of late March 24, Vietnam recorded 134COVID-19 cases, of which 17 have fully recovered./.
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An area for measuring body temperature at the Noi Bai international airport (Photo: VNA) 
