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The Ministry of Transport late Monday sent an urgent dispatch to the Civil Aviation Administration of Việt Nam (CAAV) requesting the suspension of the transport of Vietnamese from foreign countries to Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport in HCM City, starting from 0:00am on March 25.

Viet Nam has reported 118 infection cases, of whom 101, including foreign nationals, have been confirmed since March 6.

PM Phuc ordered closure of nonessential services and minimize mass gatherings and tasked local authorities to go to every alley, every house to seek for people who entered Viet Nam since March 8 and identify those who need to be quarantined or diagnosed due to close contact with them.

Until now, there has been an estimated 140 hotels and resorts in Vietnam which set up quarantine centres for tourists. According to the Department of Tourism, almost all of these centres are two-star facilities located in Danang and Quang Ninh province.

The Ministry of Health is tracing passengers on the following flights due to detection of COVID-19 patients on these flights.

The Vietnamese Government has decided to temporarily suspend entry of all foreigners since March 22 due to swift and complicated developments of the COVID-19 pandemic.

All incoming travelers to Viet Nam shall be subject to mandatory centralized quarantine for 14 days, applicable since March 21 at the request of the Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control, said Deputy Minister of Transport Le Anh Tuan.

The national carrier Vietnam Airlines on Thursday announced that it will suspend all international routes on its flight network until April 30.