Vietnam’s government has lifted its COVID-19 restrictions on international flights and restored the frequency of flights to a “pre-pandemic level,” according to state-owned media.
Vietnam imposed tight border controls at the start of the pandemic to contain the spread of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) virus—commonly known as the novel coronavirus—with initial success, but the measures had badly impacted its tourism sector, which accounted for about 10 percent of the country’s gross domestic product.