Today the Ministry of Health has released the Official Dispatch No 10688/BYT-MT with regards to health-related matters concerning cases of entry to Vietnam during covid-19. A few important bits are as below:
- General requirement:
– Having a negative to SARS-CoV-2 result test before entry (saved for children under 2 years old) within 72 hours before entering VN;
– Health declaration before entry; Upon entering VN, the PC-Covid application must be installed and used for health check and observation following Vietnamese laws;
- Requirement for specific cases:
2.1 For people having sufficient amount of vaccine shots or have recovered from COVID-19:
– Within 3 days from entry: self-monitoring at the lodging (including private houses, hotel, motel, resort, headquarter of business, guesthouse of business etc.; must not interact with nearby people and not leaving such lodging.
– Doing the SARS-CoV-2 following method of RT-PCR on the 3rd day from date of entry. If the result is negative, then continue to self monitor until the end of the 14th day from date of entry. In case of positive, then will be resolved in line with the current policy.
2.2 For people having not enough vaccine shot or have not been administered any vaccine:
– Self monitoring at the lodging within 7 days from entry date; Doing the SARS-CoV-2 following method of RT-PCR on the 3rd day & 7th day from date of entry to Vietnam. If the result is negative, then continue to self monitor until the end of the 14th day from date of entry; In case of positive, then will be resolved in line with the current policy.
- This Dispatch will not be used for case of having entering Vietnam or currently under quarantine period or under monitoring following policies used before the issuance date of this Dispatch.
- The prevention & defense against Covid-19 methods under this Dispatch will be applicable from 1st of January 2022.
This is signed and stamped by the Deputy Minister of Health Do Xuan Tuyen. You can find a signed and stamped copy of this Dispatch below.
***Please take note that: You still have to qualify to certain cases of entry permitted by Vietnamese gov. These cases have to be approved by the People’s Committee and then gained the new visa approval letter from the immigration. These cases are: i) Business owner/investor; ii) Business manager; iii) Business expert; iv) Technical worker & v) spouse & children of the above people.
This dispatch only remove the hotel quarantine requirement and allow qualified people to quarantine at home, thus saving some good hotel fees only. This does not remove the requirement of the approvals above.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MaBatUMbIO1kb_ipFH8bJsYM46yUQv5q/view?usp=sharing
