Will tighten medical control of people entering and leaving the country
People exiting, entering, or transiting through Vietnamese border gates must make health declarations to prevent and control infectious diseases as announced by the Ministry of Health.
Security staff check the luggage of passengers entering Vietnam. (Photo: VNA)
That is the content of the Circular regulating health declaration for people entering, exiting, and transiting at Vietnamese border gates that has just been approved by the Ministry of Health.
Currently, many diseases in the world are developing very complicatedly. In particular, there are many types of diseases that can spread through immigration. Therefore, the above circular was issued to contribute to controlling and preventing the spread of infectious diseases such as flu, tuberculosis, hand, foot and mouth disease...
Health declaration must be made at Vietnam border gates when completing exit, entry, transit procedures or no more than 7 days before.
The Circular clearly states that the Ministry of Health will announce the application of medical declaration in the following cases when there is a decision to declare an infectious disease epidemic by a competent state management agency.
Health declaration is also applied when there is a written notice about the situation of an infectious disease occurring abroad or the appearance of a risk factor affecting public health issued by the Ministry of Health.
The health declaration includes information about the full name, year of birth, gender, nationality, passport number of the person entering, exiting, or transiting the country; the name of the province or city or territory or country of departure to the Vietnamese border gate; places visited before arriving at the Vietnamese border gate within 7 days; contact address, phone number in Vietnam or email address, if any; list of vaccine or medical biological products used; questions about signs of the disease within 7 days.
People entering or exiting the country must receive a health declaration form on planes, ships, shipping agencies, travel companies or tour guides domestically and internationally, or receive a health declaration form at the health declaration area at Vietnamese border gates.
The above subjects must make a health declaration according to the contents in the health declaration form when arriving at a Vietnamese border gate to carry out entry, exit, or transit procedures, or before that but not earlier than 7 days after that, submit the health declaration form to the medical quarantine officer at the border gate.
Regarding control, the circular clearly states that medical quarantine officers at the border gate must check the health declaration and stamp the inspection before the person making the health declaration completes entry, exit, or transit procedures. In case the health declaration is found to be erased or recorded incorrectly, the person must be required to re-declare the health declaration.
Immigration inspection and control forces at border gates must check the confirmation of medical quarantine officers in the instructions for health declarants during entry, exit, and transit procedures.
The above Circular officially takes effect from February 1, 2013./.
According to (Vietnam+) - LT
