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Vietnam will lift its COVID-19 restrictions on international passenger flights to all markets starting February 15, with no restrictions on the number of flights, the state-run newspaper Tuoi Tre reported on Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The Southeast Asian country imposed strict border controls at the start of the pandemic to keep out COVID-19, with some initial success, but it dealt a blow to its emerging tourism sector, which accounts for about 10 per cent of its output. gross domestic.<\/p>\n
“Vietnam will lift restrictions on international flights starting on February 15. “The frequency of flights will return to pre-pandemic levels,” Dinh Viet Son, deputy director of Vietnam’s Civil Aviation Administration, was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n
Vietnam has already informed its partners of the new policy and only China has not yet agreed to resume commercial flights with Vietnam.<\/p>\n
Vietnam had already begun gradually reopening international flights to 15 markets since the beginning of this year easing quarantine requirements, with vaccinated passengers now only needing three days of isolation.<\/p>\n
The Southeast Asian country has recorded nearly 2.5 million cases of COVID-19 since the onset of the pandemic and about 39,000 deaths. Nearly 98 percent of the population of 98 million have received at least two doses of vaccines, official data showed.\/REL<\/p>\n
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