Posted on 07/27/2020 10:43:46 AM PDT by BenLurkin
On Monday, the government made the drastic decision to begin evacuating 80,000 people from Da Nang, a process it said would take four days. Domestic airlines are operating about 100 flights daily to 11 cities around the country, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam.
Only two Vietnamese provinces, Bac Giang and Bac Ninh, will require those returning from Da Nang to be quarantined. Other local authorities will require them to fill in health declaration forms.
Da Nang is a tourist hotspot popular with domestic and international tourists, who flock to the city's white sandy beaches and seafront resorts. In 2019, the city welcomed about 8.7 million tourists -- some 5.2 million of whom were domestic travelers, according to government figures.
Vietnam almost completely sealed off its borders to foreign nationals in March and is still off-limits to international tourists because of the pandemic. In June, the country allowed more than 400 Japanese business travelers to land on several chartered flights, in a first step toward opening borders between the two countries.
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Let’s go do some international travel, it’s so cool.
Sounds prudent. /s
It wasn’t such an attractive place when I was there last....
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DANANG is GORGEOUS!!! What a STUPID idea!!
Send ‘em over here
No wait, out idiot governor has banned people from every other state from coming to NJ
The commies don’t mess around when Mr. Covid come to town. The go straight to overdrive.
Luckily, it’s a hot heat
Da Nang Da Nang...Da Nang Me...Da Nang Me....They oughta get rope and hang me!
I would have thought that evacuating the tourists to other Vietnam cities would spread the virus country wide, unless the tourists were rigorously checked for the virus before boarding aircraft. - Tom
“I’d like a seat in First Class.”
“I velly solly sir, only COVID Class. Here ticket. You go now. Next!”
I was a “tourist”, in uniform, around Da Nang 50 years ago. Wish someone had evacuated me and my brothers.
Been that way between 1971 to 1974. Have no interest to return, ever.
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