This is a question that Lawnet has received a lot from customers and members recently, when the Covid-19 epidemic is having many complicated developments in Vietnam. Lawnet would like to answer this issue in the article below.
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Vietnam: Do people in concentrated isolation due to Covid-19 have to pay their own expenses?
According to the provisions of Article 1 of Vietnam's Resolution 16/NQ-CP on quarantine and healthcare expenses during quarantine period issued by the Government on February 8, 2021, depending on the case, those subject to concentrated isolation will have to pay their own expenses or be covered by the state budget. As follows:
(1) Foreigners and overseas Vietnamese, upon entry into Vietnam, subject to concentrated quarantine shall bear the following expenses:
- The expense for transport from port of entry to quarantine facility;
- The expense for COVID-19 diagnosis according to applicable health service charges;
- Subsistence expenses (including disinfection and sterilization cost; cost of protection, security, order and other expenses) based on the rates announced by the hotels, resorts, or owners of means of transport.
(2) Vietnamese people who go abroad for working, studying, tourism, medical treatment and visiting their relatives shall have to be quarantined at concentrated camps when they return to Viet Nam.
*** If they choose to isolate themselves at hotels and resorts, they have to pay:
- The expense for transport from port of entry to quarantine facility;
- The expense for COVID-19 diagnosis according to applicable health service charges;
- Subsistence expenses (including disinfection and sterilization cost; cost of protection, security, order and other expenses) based on the rates announced by the hotels, resorts, or owners of means of transport.
*** If the returnee, upon decision of the People’s Committee of province, shall be quarantined in a military barrack, military school, or another facility chosen by the competent authority as concentrated quarantine facility, he/she shall bear the following expenses:
- The expense for transport from port of entry to quarantine facility;
- The expense for COVID-19 diagnosis according to applicable health service charges;
- The expense for meals, equivalent to VND 80,000/person/day;
- The subsistence expense during the concentrated quarantine period (drinking water, face towels, face masks, hand sanitizers, oral disinfectant solution, toothbrush, soap, necessities and other expenses), equivalent to VND 40,000/person/day.
If a returnee subject to concentrated quarantine is member of a poor or near-poor household, expenses will be covered by the State as prescribed above
(3) Vietnamese people who are sent abroad by competent regulatory authorities for working, studying; members of overseas Vietnamese agencies, accompanying spouses and juvenile children shall have to be quarantined at concentrated camps when they return to Viet Nam.
*** If they choose to isolate themselves at hotels and resorts, they have to pay:
- The expense for transport from port of entry to quarantine facility;
- The expense for COVID-19 diagnosis according to applicable health service charges;
- Subsistence expenses (including disinfection and sterilization cost; cost of protection, security, order and other expenses) based on the rates announced by the hotels, resorts, or owners of means of transport.
*** If the returnee, upon decision of the People’s Committee of province, shall be quarantined in a military barrack, military school, or another facility chosen by the competent authority as concentrated quarantine facility, he/she shall bear the following expenses:
- The expense for transport from port of entry to quarantine facility;
- The expense for COVID-19 diagnosis according to applicable health service charges;
- The expense for meals, equivalent to VND 80,000/person/day;
- The subsistence expense during the concentrated quarantine period (drinking water, face towels, face masks, hand sanitizers, oral disinfectant solution, toothbrush, soap, necessities and other expenses), equivalent to VND 40,000/person/day.
(4) Vietnamese people in Vietnam subject to concentrated quarantine shall:
*** If they choose to isolate themselves at hotels and resorts, they have to pay:
- The expense for transport from port of entry to quarantine facility;
- The expense for COVID-19 diagnosis according to applicable health service charges;
- Subsistence expenses (including disinfection and sterilization cost; cost of protection, security, order and other expenses) based on the rates announced by the hotels, resorts, or owners of means of transport.
*** If they are quarantined in health facilities, military barracks, military schools, or other facilities chosen by the competent authorities as concentrated quarantine facilities, they shall pay the expense for meal of VND 80,000/person/day to the quarantine facilities; the expenses below shall be covered by the State:
- The expense for transport from place where the suspect is found to the quarantine facility;
- The expense for COVID-19 diagnosis;
- The subsistence expense during the concentrated quarantine period (drinking water, face towels, face masks, hand sanitizers, oral disinfectant solution, toothbrush, soap, necessities and other expenses), equivalent to VND 40,000/person/day.
(5) Persons engaged in pandemic prevention and control, subject to concentrated quarantine, are eligible to allowances specified in section (3)
Note:
- Vietnamese people in Vietnam subject to concentrated quarantine before the date of entry into force of this Resolution who have quarantine expenses covered by the state as prescribed in Resolution No. 37/NQ-CP dated March 29, 2020 of the Government, may be further so entitled as per the Resolution No. 37/NQ-CP until the end of the concentrated quarantine period.
- Entrants to Vietnam who complete the concentrated quarantine at military barracks, military schools or other facilities designated by regulatory agencies, during the period from August 24, 2020 to the effective date of this Resolution, if the concentrated quarantine facility has not yet collected or fully collected the fee for centralized quarantine, it may file an expenditure statement corresponding to the unpaid amount or insufficient amount from the state budget estimate for anti-pandemic according to the state budget decentralization.
- Key word:
- Resolution 16/NQ-CP of Vietnam
