Minister of Public Security General To Lam suggested the Government apply measures to prevent people illegally returning to Vietnam given the complex development of the COVID-19 pandemic.

VOV.VN - Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam requested on December 29 that Vietnamese people who have relatives living abroad provide relevant information on the current situation at home and do their upmost to persuade their relatives not to enter the country illegally.

VOV.VN - Ho Chi Minh City on December 29 recorded another COVID-19 patient who is one of the six people illegally entering Vietnam from Myanmar.

Competent forces of the central province of Phu Yen have seized a passenger bus with 16 people aboard, including eight Chinese, suspected to enter Vietnam illegally, the provincial steering committee for COVID-19 prevention and control reported on December 28.

VOV.VN - A woman who travelled on a bus with an illegal entrant, a COVID-19 patient, has tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, according to local officials of Dong Thap province where the woman lives.

VOV.VN - Local authorities in the nation’s southwestern region have swiftly implemented drastic measures aimed at tightly controlling people entering cities and provinces from places that have high infection rates of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in order to ensure pandemic prevention in border areas.

VOV.VN - Vietnam on December 27 registered another coronavirus infection, a Vietnamese returnee from the United States, according to the Ministry of Health.

VOV.VN - A 32-year-old man, a resident of Vinh Long province, southern Vietnam, who illegally crossed the Cambodia-Vietnam border, has been diagnosed with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, according to local authorities.

VOV.VN - A Vietnamese man has been detained for organising illegal border crossings for individuals attempting to enter the country from Cambodia, according officials of the Long Binh border gate in An Giang province.

VOV.VN - Police forces operating in the northern border province of Lang Son arrested 20 Chinese citizens who had entered Vietnam illegally.