Popular destinations in Quang Ninh re-opened to tourists from within the province yesterday as the area has recorded no community transmission of COVID-19 in 20 days.
The aerial view of Ha Long Bay in Quang Ninh Province. It is re-opened to tourists from within the province since March 2, together with other provincial renowned destinations. — Photo vietnamplus.vn
However, Quang Ninh is not ready to receive tourists from other provinces yet.
The provincial Party Committee asked tourism businesses and tourist sites to develop a process for receiving tourists to ensure safety during the pandemic, strictly complying with the instructions of the Ministry of Health as well as disease prevention measures.
Specifically, Ha Long City is required to strictly control the tourism activities on Ha Long Bay. Meanwhile, other localities and institutes must monitor their destinations, especially where spiritual activities take place, to limit gatherings.
According to local authorities, Quang Ninh will continue to apply appropriate measures to strictly control people returning and coming from pandemic-hit areas throughout the country to ensure safety.
For people coming or returning from areas with no new cases of COVID-19, they only need to fill in medical declarations.
The province also strictly controls the vehicles transporting goods in and out of the province and requires the implementation of pandemic control measures.
Localities including Ha Long, Uong Bi, Đong Trieu, Cam Pha and Quang Yen need to proactively apply appropriate and necessary measures to ensure effectiveness and efficiency in preventing and controlling the COVID-19 pandemic.
Van Don International Airport will resume operations today and Quang Ninh Province is urgently building a new anti-pandemic process to ensure safety for the airport, airport staff and the community.
According to the Secretary of the Quang Ninh Provincial Party Committee, the province still has COVID-19 patients that are under treatment and isolation. Therefore, the province is not qualified to serve quarantine of cases from outside the province, including Vietnamese citizens, foreign engineers, workers and experts who enter Viet Nam via Van Don airport.
In terms of the normalisation of economic and social activities, including those related to business and services that are operated under certain conditions such as karaoke parlours or bars, Quang Ninh has assigned local police to research and propose the plan and appropriate time of their reoperation.