Plan on hold: Under the plan, Phu Quoc expects to welcome 3,000-5,000 visitors over the trial period, with compulsory Covid-19 tests conducted by authorities. — Reuters
The country has pushed back a plan to reopen the resort island of Phu Quoc to foreign tourists until November, after failing to meet targets for inoculating residents due to insufficient vaccine supplies, state media reported.
The South-East Asian nation, which is currently shut to all visitors apart from returning citizens and investors, has been struggling to speed up inoculations to help contain a spike in Covid-19 cases driven by the Delta variant in recent months.
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