Vietnam announced the suspension of incoming international flights to its capital and tightened restrictions in its biggest city on Monday, as part efforts to contain a coronavirus outbreak that has seen cases double in the past month.
After successfully containing coronavirus outbreaks for most of last year, Vietnam is seeing infections rise sharply and has detected several highly transmissible variants, including a new one announced on Saturday that had elements of the variants first identified in Britain and India.
The inbound flight suspension to Hanoi will apply from June 1 to June 7 and made no mention of domestic flights. Vietnam has been restricting inbound international flights since the start of the pandemic.
