- Two hundred vaccinated foreign tourists arrive in Vietnam’s beach-fringed island of Phu Quoc.
- Vaccinated tourists now do not have to undergo mandatory two-week quarantine.
- Vietnam, which has inoculated more than half of its 98 million people, is seeking to resume international commercial flights from January next year.
HANOI: Two hundred vaccinated foreign tourists arrived in Vietnam’s beach-fringed island of Phu Quoc on Saturday, the first wave of visitors to the country in nearly two years as it seeks to resurrect its pandemic-ravaged tourism economy.
Vietnam imposed tight border controls at the start of the pandemic in an effort to keep out COVID-19, with some initial success, but that harmed its burgeoning tourism sector, which…