Vietnam lifts MERS-CoV health declaration for visitors from S. Korea

Visitors from South Korea to Vietnam after Aug. 15 will be exempted from MERS-CoV health declaration, the Vietnamese Ministry of Health said on Wednesday.

Based on the MERS-CoV situation in South Korea, the ministry to stop health declaration at international border gates for persons coming from South Korea since Aug. 15 following the announcement of the South Korean government over the epidemic's ending.

However, health declaration applying for visitors from the Middle East remains effective as the epidemic situation in countries there is still complicated.

Vietnam started to require health declaration by visitors from South Korea on June 3 after the epidemic outbreak in the country.

South Korean Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn on July 28 declared the de-facto end of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome outbreak as all MERS suspects were freed from quarantine as there had been no report of new infection case for more than three weeks. Enditem