The decision reaches South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Mozambique and Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), and includes the freezing of entry permits for people from those nations.
Similarly, the Ministry of Health is strengthening the epidemiological surveillance system at airports and other border gates in order to promptly detect possible travelers with the typical symptoms of Covid-19.
He also directed the Institutes of Hygiene and Epidemiology and Pasteur to immediately carry out genetic sequencing of people with an epidemiological background recently arrived from southern African countries.
Vietnam is still suffering the ravages of the Delta variant of Covid-19, which entered the country last April.
Before then, the Indochinese nation only registered 3,428 cases and 35 deaths, but after seven months, the infected pass 1,200,000 and the deaths of 25,000.
Something similar happened in the other Southeast Asian countries, which is why the World Health Organization recommended that the region take projections against the Omicron variant.
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