Vietnam ramps up border control as Cambodia s coronavirus crisis deepens
A patrol group of the An Giang provincial border guard forces do their job. Photo by VnExpress/Thanh Nam.
Vietnam is ramping up border control at its southwestern borders next to Cambodia as the coronavirus crisis deepens inside the neighboring country.
Kien Giang Province, which shares a 56 kilometer land border with Cambodia and has a 200 kilometer shoreline, has seen many migrants enter Phu Quoc Island illegally via the sea route recently. The provincial People s Committee said over 103,000 Vietnamese are residing in Cambodia, with around 1,700 living in three Cambodian provinces bordering Kien Giang.
Wednesday, April 21, 2021, 15:40 GMT+7
Visitors take photos at Phu Quoc United Center on Phu Quoc Island, Kien Giang Province, Vietnam, April 20, 2021. Photo: T.T.D. / Tuoi Tre
Currently, about 54 flights carry 20,000 arrivals to Phu Quoc Island every day, according to the Department of Tourism of Kien Giang Province, which administers the island regarded as Vietnam s beach paradise.
The number is forecast to increase to 80 flights on the back-to-back holidays of Reunification Day (April 30) and International Workers Day (May 1).
The figures are the result of not only the high demand of summer travel but also the opening of Vietnam’s first-ever ‘sleepless city’ on Phu Quoc an example of the inevitable trend in the tourism industry, in which independent night-time entertainment complexes are established in big cities.
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Wednesday, April 21, 2021, 17:14 GMT+7
This supplied photo shows Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long (second left) gesturing during a field trip to Kien Giang Province, Vietnam, April 18, 2021.
Two field hospitals for COVID-19 treatment would be built in a province sitting along the Vietnam-Cambodia, according to a plan inveiled by a senior doctor from Ho Chi Minh City.
The two makeshift hospitals would be constructed in Ha Tien City and Rach Gia City, both located in Kien Giang Province in southern Vietnam, said Dr. Nguyen Tri Thuc, director of Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, after a field trip to the province on Sunday.
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