A350 aircraft is utilized to bring home stranded visitors from coronavirus-hit Da Nang (Cre: Airbus).

VNA said it will utilise the Airbus A350 wide-body aircraft, one of the airline’s largest and most modern aircraft, to transport the stranded holidaymakers.

Two of the flights are expected to carry more than 400 people back to Hanoi on August 12, while a further flight is to be arranged to take over 300 people back to Ho Chi Minh City.

In order to prevent the further spread of the epidemic, all flights will have to abide by stringent Covid-19 prevention and control measures, with crew members and passengers being equipped with protective suites and having their body temperature checked ahead of departure.

Da Nang is currently the epicenter of the country’s latest Covid-19 outbreak. It has confirmed nearly 300 new Covid-19 patients in the community since the first such case was detected on July 25.

Cre: VOV

Nguyen Mai Huong-COMM