SunStar No travel restrictions on Vietnam, but DOH pushes strict compliance to health protocols
VIETNAM. A masked security personnel guards a polling station in Hanoi on May 23 as the citizens cast their ballots to elect 500 delegates to the National Assembly while combating a new wave of Covid-19 cases. (AP)
+ May 31, 2021 TRAVELERS from Vietnam or with travel history to Vietnam may still enter the Philippines as the government has not imposed any restrictions despite reports of a new Sars-CoV-2 variant that is a hybrid of those found in India and the United Kingdom (UK).
Department of Health (DOH) Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire, however, said on Monday, May 31, 2021, that there is no need to panic over this new variant.