Hanoi: All tourist accommodation establishments are required to complete medical declaration

In the face of increasingly complicated and unpredictable developments of the Covid-19 epidemic, the Hanoi Department of Tourism has just issued a document to the People’s Committees of districts, towns in the area about continuing to carry out the Covid-19 safety assessment. 19 of all tourist accommodation establishments.

The Department of Tourism requires all tourist accommodation establishments to self-assess Covid-19 safety on the system of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. According to statistics of the General Department of Tourism, as of May 24, the city has 294 tourist service businesses registered and assessed for Covid-19 safety, the Department of Tourism said. In which, the number of registered tourist accommodation establishments is 244 with a total number of declarations of 2,236 times in 19/30 districts, towns. This is not a high number compared to the number of accommodation establishments in Hanoi. In order to proactively respond to the risk of the outbreak of the Covid-19 epidemic, to ensure more effectiveness in epidemic prevention and control, the Department of Tourism proposed the local People’s Committees to continue to coordinate in strengthening inspection and supervision. promptly handle strictly tourist accommodation establishments that fail to comply with the epidemic prevention and control measures of competent agencies; Only allow tourist accommodation establishments to ensure Covid-19 safety to welcome and serve guests. In addition, localities need to guide and require accommodation facilities to fully make medical declarations by QR code (tokhaiyte.vn), declare stay for guests according to regulations; declaration of inspection and supervision tables for 19 concentrated medical isolation facilities. Accommodation facilities need to guide visitors to download and use the “Safe Vietnam tourism” app to prevent and control the Covid-19 epidemic. All tourist accommodation establishments must self-assess and update to the national Covid-19 safety system according to the guidance of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism by: Visit http://safe .tourism.com.vn to register an account according to the instructions; log into the system and self-assess Covid-19 safety according to the “Covid-19 safety assessment sheet at tourist accommodation establishments” available on the system; print the QR code and publish and paste the code at the reception hall or easy-to-observe area so that visitors can check and evaluate the facility’s epidemic prevention and control; guide customers to download and use the “Safe Vietnam Tourism” application. For accommodation establishments that are temporarily closed, do not do business or change industries, the Department of Tourism is required to still register and tick the “Closed business premises” on the system. Step 1: Visit https://www.bluezone.gov.vn or download directly at App Store or CH Play. Step 2: Once downloaded, the application will ask for permission to use Bluetooth to record contact with other users who have installed Bluezone. If Bluetooth is not already on, drag the status bar and turn on Bluetooth; or go to Settings, select Bluetooth and turn it on. Step 3: Once the installation is done, click Scan Around. If someone near you less than 2m has used Bluezone, the application will automatically identify these users and put them in the contact list.