More than 350 Vietnamese citizens from Australia and New Zealand were brought home on a repatriation flight which landed in Ho Chi Minh City on July 3.

 More than 350 Vietnamese citizens from Australia and New Zealand were brought home on a repatriation flight which landed in Ho Chi Minh City on July 3. Photo by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the flight was arranged by authorities of the three countries and the national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines.

Passengers were mostly children, the elderly, the ill, pregnant women, and workers and students whose working contracts ended or campus closed.

Thousands of Vietnamese people living and working abroad have been repatriated over the last months.

On July 2, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc agreed to allow some 14,000 Vietnamese nationals abroad to return home amid the on-going Covid-19 pandemic in many countries.