Mong Cai International Border Gate in the northern province of Quang Ninh received visitors again at 8 am on January 8 after China announced the lifting of Covid-19 control measures and reopening its border with Vietnam.
The People’s Committee of HCMC on January 4 has released an urgent document on allowing karaoke parlors, discotheques, dance clubs, spas and massages to re-operate under strict Covid-19 safe protocols.
Although HCMC’s authorities allowed cinemas to reopen to fully vaccinated individuals starting on November 19, movie theaters across the city are still deserted. Film lovers have not come to cinemas amid concerns over the virus spread.
The reopening to vaccinated international travelers is an inevitable trend to recover the tourism industry step by step, Director of the HCMC Department of Tourism Nguyen Thi Anh Hoa said in a recent survey on building new tours to attract visitor to the city.
The flight No.VJ3749 operated by the low-cost carrier Vietjet Air carrying 204 tourists from the Republic of Korea (RoK) arrived in Phu Quoc Island at 12 p.m on November 20. The Korean visitors become the first visitors to the “pearl island” in the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang which has been selected as one of the localities including Da Nang, Quang Ninh, Quang Nam, Khanh Hoa and Kien Giang to implement an experimental program on welcoming back foreign tourists with vaccine passport.
On November 5, the Saigon Zoo and Botanical Garden, the preserver of animals and plants and a famous sightseeing spot in the center of HCMC, was officially reopened after over 5 months of inactivity due to Covid-19.
Nearly one month after the reopening and activity resumption, the Covid-19 pandemic in HCMC has been continuously controlled. The city has seen a sharp fall in number of new cases, severe patients and deaths. Most of businesses have resumed their operation and looked ahead to life after the disease.
Most of the traditional markets have been urgently planning to resume operations. Meanwhile, the purchasing power in the supermarket system has dropped sharply because people did not buy and hoard goods as before.
Vice Chairwoman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Phan Thi Thang, in a recent meeting, asked departments, Thu Duc City, and districts to quickly reorganize local supply points of goods with an appropriate method, resume operations of points of sale of food and essential foods at traditional markets. The decision of the leaders of the People's Committee of HCMC is right, but in reality, reopening traditional markets is not an easy task.
The People’s Committee of My Duc District of Hanoi and the organizing committee of Huong Pagoda Festival have built detailed plans on infection prevention and control for Covid-19 to limit the entry and spread of the virus during the festival in the historical site.
The level of preventing and controlling the Covid-19 outbreak at Van Don International Airport in the northern coastal province of Quang Ninh has been raised to the highest point to keep passengers and employees safe after its reopening on March 3.
The Ministry of Transport has sent a proposal to the Prime Minister to consider the reopening of regular international commercial flights between Vietnam and other countries with one flight a week to one destination from August.
To help students both brush up and consolidate knowledge, teachers have adopted different teaching methodologies to ensure completion of curriculum when schools reopened and teaching activities were normal.
