On Tuesday night, the Da Nang authorities arranged a Vietjet-operated flight to help 24 South Korean nationals return home as per their expectations.

After getting proposal from the South Korean Consulate General in Da Nang, the municipal authorities arranged a flight to help 24 South Korean nationals return home.

Among them were 18 South Korean air passengers arriving in Da Nang from Daegu City on 24 February, and the remainder coming from coronavirus-hit areas in this country and staying in the city.

In the morning of 24 February, a total of 80 air passengers were isolated in Da Nang after arriving in Da Nang from Daegu City due to public fears over the novel coronavirus outbreak.

Twenty of them were South Korean citizens, two were Thai nationals, and the remaining 58 passengers were Vietnamese nationals who are studying and working in South Korea.

The Vietnamese passengers were being kept in quarantine at the Dong Nghe Training Centre which is used to receive people from epidemic-infected areas. Meanwhile, the foreigners were isolated at the Lung Hospital.

Dr Le Thanh Phuc, Director of the hospital, said that 2 out of 20 South Korean passengers accepted the hospital isolation for 14 days to prevent the spread of infection as required by the Vietnamese Ministry of Health.

A tourist coach carrying the South Korean citizens to the Da Nang International Airport

These South Korean guests arriving in Da Nang in the time when their country raised its infectious-disease alert level to the highest.

The Da Nang Department of Foreign Affairs worked with the South Korean Consulate General in Da Nang to help their citizens to return home on Tuesday night.

A tourist coach carrying the South Korean nationals arrived at the Da Nang International Airport guest house

A truck carrying luggage of South Korean citizens

A tourist coach carrying the South Korean nationals stopping in front of the main hall of the guest house

The airport’s staff preparing check-in procedures for the South Korean nationals

The South Korean citizens flew to their home on a Vietjet Air-operated flight which departed at Da Nang International Airport at 11.55pm on 25 February, and landed at Incheon International Airport in the next morning.

 By XUAN SON - Translated by MAI DUNG