HANOI: (Bernama-Xinhua) Travellers entering, leaving or transiting through Vietnam will be required to submit health declarations beginning July 1, 2026.
The requirement is part of a new government decree outlining the implementation of the Law on Disease Prevention, reported Xinhua, citing local newspaper Suc Khoe & Doi Song on Thursday (May 21).
The Ministry of Health will specify the applicable subjects and enforcement timeline for mandatory health declarations at border gates for different infectious diseases, based on the global epidemic situation and real-time importation risks of diseases in Vietnam.
Health declarations can be submitted either electronically or in paper form, according to the report.
The decree stipulates that health declarations must be completed within seven days prior to entry, exit or transit in Vietnam.
It also requires health quarantine officers to conduct direct and indirect health observation, monitor travellers' physical conditions and body temperature via medical surveillance equipment, so as to identify suspected infectious disease cases in a timely manner. - Bernama-Xinhua
