Daily COVID-19 Update

Vietnam: Authorities continue to enforce COVID-19 and update the restrictions nationwide as of 22 June 2021.  Vietnam continues to enact COVID-19 rules nationwide with requests to follow the restrictions strictly from Heads of all Departments, Agencies, Units, Chairperson of the People’s Committee City and other districts to immediately implement the following updates:

1. Workplace & Public

• No gathering of more than 20 people in workplace meetings and at conferences or more in one place and of 10 people or more outside workplaces, schools and hospitals are banned.
• All religious rites and activities with more than 20 participants in religious establishments as well as all cultural, sports, and recreational activities in public places are suspended.

2. Vaccines The Vietnamese government is vaccinating only individuals in defined priority groups, including healthcare workers, staff working at quarantine sites, Vietnamese diplomats and immigration officers, essential service workers, senior citizens over 65 with chronic diseases, residents in outbreak areas, etc. The vaccine doses may come at the end of June or early July, with the government planning to allow more groups to be vaccinated like workers in industrial parks. For priority groups:

• Front liners: Healthcare workers, those who join COVID-19 prevention and control work (members of steering committees for COVID-19 prevention and control at all levels, staff at designated quarantine sites, those who carry out contract tracing and epidemiological investigations, volunteers, reporters among others), military and public security forces
• Vietnamese diplomats, customs and immigration officers.
• Essential service workers in such sectors like aviation, transport, tourism, electricity and water supply, etc
• Teachers and those who work at education and training facilities, those who work at State agencies and have regular contact with various people
• People with chronic illnesses, people aged above 65
• Residents in pandemic-hit areas
• Poor people, policy beneficiaries
• Those who will be sent abroad for learning and working
• Other people decided by the Ministry of Health depending on COVID-19 situation