At Dallas airport (Photo: travelandleisure.com) Hanoi (VNA) – The Vietnamese Consulate General inSan Francisco and other representative agencies in the US have discussed withthe host authorities and airlines on arranging flights to bring Vietnamesestudents home at an appropriate time, amid the worsening COVID-19 pandemic.
Earlier, a group of nearly 40 Vietnamese, includingstudents, were stuck at Dallas airport because their flight to Vietnam viaJapan’s Narita was cancelled.
As of March 22 evening (local time), nearly 30 in the grouphad their route changed with transits in San Francisco and Hong Kong (China).
Twelve students are waiting at Dallas airport and will flytomorrow.
As many countries and territories have shut downinternational and transit flights, the Foreign Ministry called on Vietnamesecitizens abroad to refrain from travels between countries and to Vietnam incurrent time, except cases of force majeure, as well as follow guidance andupdate regulations in the host countries and airlines, ensure enoughdocumentation to take flights, especially medical certificates if needed.
For further assistance, citizens could visit officialwebsites of Vietnamese representative agencies abroad, or citizen protectionhotline of the Foreign Ministry’s Consular Department +84.981.84.84.84.
The Vietnamese Embassy in Australia also urged Vietnamesecitizens to stay calm, not to panic but protect themselves from the epidemic.
Further information could be found on the website www.vietnamembassy.org.au, www.lanhsuvietnam.gov.vn, www.facebook.com/thongtinchinhphu,or phone numbers 0466 401 665, 02 616 94916, 02 616 94915, and 02 616 94917.
Nearly 300,000 Vietnamese are living and working in Australia,about 20,000 of them students.
The same day, the Vietnamese Embassy in Thailand also issuedthe second announcement urging Vietnamese citizens to seriously follow epidemicprevention measures in the host country.
In cases of necessity, those who want to return home shouldregister on the official website of the embassy. It will later consider thepossibility of arranging a commercial flight./.
Earlier, a group of nearly 40 Vietnamese, includingstudents, were stuck at Dallas airport because their flight to Vietnam viaJapan’s Narita was cancelled.
As of March 22 evening (local time), nearly 30 in the grouphad their route changed with transits in San Francisco and Hong Kong (China).
Twelve students are waiting at Dallas airport and will flytomorrow.
As many countries and territories have shut downinternational and transit flights, the Foreign Ministry called on Vietnamesecitizens abroad to refrain from travels between countries and to Vietnam incurrent time, except cases of force majeure, as well as follow guidance andupdate regulations in the host countries and airlines, ensure enoughdocumentation to take flights, especially medical certificates if needed.
For further assistance, citizens could visit officialwebsites of Vietnamese representative agencies abroad, or citizen protectionhotline of the Foreign Ministry’s Consular Department +84.981.84.84.84.
The Vietnamese Embassy in Australia also urged Vietnamesecitizens to stay calm, not to panic but protect themselves from the epidemic.
Further information could be found on the website www.vietnamembassy.org.au, www.lanhsuvietnam.gov.vn, www.facebook.com/thongtinchinhphu,or phone numbers 0466 401 665, 02 616 94916, 02 616 94915, and 02 616 94917.
Nearly 300,000 Vietnamese are living and working in Australia,about 20,000 of them students.
The same day, the Vietnamese Embassy in Thailand also issuedthe second announcement urging Vietnamese citizens to seriously follow epidemicprevention measures in the host country.
In cases of necessity, those who want to return home shouldregister on the official website of the embassy. It will later consider thepossibility of arranging a commercial flight./.
VNA
