Ho Chi Minh City eases medical checks on people entering Tan Son Nhat airport

The Department of Health requested the Ho Chi Minh City Center for Disease Control to stop testing passengers with negative Covid-19 test results, from April 25.

According to the Department of Health's explanation, before passengers board the plane to Vietnam, airlines have checked to ensure that all passengers on entry have negative test results according to regulations of the Ministry of Health. so there is no need to double check when passengers arrive at Tan Son Nhat airport.

In addition to easing checks, Ho Chi Minh City re-established the organization of streamlining as soon as passengers enter the country. Specifically, for passengers with a medical declaration, after presenting the QR code to the medical quarantine officer, they will be able to go through a separate stream to do immigration procedures, without having to stop waiting for QR code scanning and information verification. as before. Passengers who have not declared medical can declare while moving from the plane to the terminal with QR codes arranged along the aisle, or into a private area with the help of medical quarantine, airline staff air.

In addition, the Southern Airport Authority continues to require airlines to fully notify and guide passengers to make medical declarations before boarding flights to Vietnam.

After applying the improved process, the airport is no longer crowded and congested, even when there are many flights landing at the same time as from 14 to 15:00 on April 25, Tan Son Nhat receives consecutively. 6 entry flights. Passengers with medical declarations hardly have to stop, those who have not declared, move into a separate area for instructions on how to declare.