Vietnam Airlines to transport 700 stranded tourists from Da Nang to Hanoi, HCMC
The national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines said on August 10 that it will operate three flights to transport more than 700 tourists stranded in Da Nang, now the country’s major COVID-19 outbreak, to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.
Medical workers in charge of checking passengers' body temperature at Noi Bai International Airport (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The national flag carrierVietnam Airlines said on August 10 that it will operate three flights to transport more than 700 tourists stranded in Da Nang, now the country’s majorCOVID-19 outbreak, to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.
These flights are scheduled for August 12-13, carryingpassengers who have been stuck in Da Nang due to social distancing measures. All of them, together with crew members, will be underquarantine and medical monitoring in localities in line with regulations.
The flights are the first domestic ones conducted bythe national flag carrier to transport stranded tourists amidst COVID-19.
Vietnam recorded six more COVID-19 cases onAugust 10 afternoon, bringing the national tally to 847, according to theNational Steering Committee for COVID-19 Preventionand Control.
Of the new patients,aged 8 - 65, one is in the central province of Quang Nam, four in the centralcity of Da Nang, and one imported case in Ho Chi Minh City.
Vietnam has to date reported 847 COVID-19 patients since the first casewas detected in January. Of those, 318 are imported.
According to the committee’s treatmentsubcommittee, four more patients were reported to fully recover onAugust 10, lifting the total of recovered cases to 399. There have been 14deaths so far.
Among the remaining active patients, nine have tested negative for thecoronavirus SARS-CoV-2 once and 36 others at least twice.
A total of 182,267 people who had close contact withCOVID-19 patients or entering Vietnam from pandemic-hit regions arebeing quarantined nationwide, including 5,139 at hospitals, 28,408 at otherconcentrated quarantine facilities, and 148,720 at their homes./.
Nearly 1,500 market vendors in Han, Con, Dong Da and Hoa Cuong markets in Da Nang city have worn Vietnamese flag T-shirts at once to show their determination to win the city’s fight against COVID-19.
Four patients who contracted COVID-19 in the latest outbreak hitting Vietnam have recovered from the disease and were discharged from the Da Nang Lung Hospital on August 10.
Vietnam recorded six more COVID-19 cases on August 10 afternoon, bringing the national tally to 847, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.
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Medical workers in charge of checking passengers' body temperature at Noi Bai International Airport (Photo: VNA) 
