The route follows the highway: Pham Van Dong street, Trang Bom – Hoa Hung railway, Ring 2 route (located in Thu Duc city) and connects the rails directly to the Thu Thiem light rail route – National airport. Long Thanh economic zone at the Ring Road 2 intersection with the Ho Chi Minh City – Long Thanh – Dau Giay Expressway. Ho Chi Minh City also suggested that it is necessary to study the direction of urban railway No. 4b directly connecting with T1, T2, T3 terminals of Tan Son Nhat Airport. The City People’s Committee assessed that this route alignment option, when built, will contribute to the development of the urban railway system in Thu Duc City, convenient for traveling between areas. Talking to Dat Viet, aviation expert – Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Thien Tong, former Head of the Department of Aviation Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City University of Science and Technology, pointed out 3 problems that make the railway connecting Tan Son airport Nhat – Long Thanh is not feasible. Firstly, about the need to build this railway line. According to Mr. Tong, it is not possible to say here in general that there is a need or indiscriminately stating a few numbers, lacking actual research, but needing specific quantitative analysis. “How many passengers will travel on this railway connecting Tan Son Nhat with Long Thanh? There must be data and an explanation for why there is such data”, he emphasized. Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee wishes to have a railway connecting Tan Son Nhat international airport to Long Thanh international airport. The expert said that, in the past, passenger demand for Long Thanh airport was calculated from the passenger demand forecast for Tan Son Nhat airport and then subtracted from the capacity of Tan Son Nhat airport. This simple calculation is based on the assumption that all excess passenger demand of Tan Son Nhat airport will be transferred to Long Thanh airport. “It is expected that when Tan Son Nhat airport is overloaded with over 50 million passengers, and the demand is up to 75 million passengers, then 25 million passengers will go from Tan Son Nhat through Long Thanh airport. This calculation method is very mechanical and mechanical, potentially posing a huge risk in forecasting passenger demand for Long Thanh airport”, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Thien Tong commented and affirmed that passengers do not wait until Tan Tan. Son Nhat will run out of seats and then go to Long Thanh, but they will go to any airport they want to go to. rather than going through Tan Son Nhat. So which passengers from Tan Son Nhat to Long Thanh? Only passengers on domestic flights to Tan Son Nhat need to go to Long Thanh to connect to international routes. And vice versa, only passengers on international flights to Long Thanh without a connection from there to other provinces and cities such as Hanoi, Hue, Da Nang… will return to Tan Son Nhat to fly away. The number of international passengers traveling between these two airports is not much, so there is no need. That is the plan that the Ministry of Transport wants to use Tan Son Nhat airport as a domestic airport and Long Thanh as an international airport. The option of organizing two airports like this is inefficient and unfeasible. In principle of international airport operation, domestic and international terminals must be close to each other. It is best that Long Thanh International Airport is a transit airport for long-distance international flights such as going to Europe and America that need to collect passengers all over the country, and short-distance international flights such as going to Asia. Tan Son Nhat airport and other international airports take over to serve the residential areas of the provinces near the airport. “Most of the excess passenger demand of Tan Son Nhat airport will be transferred to using regional airports, especially passengers in the Mekong Delta will use Can Tho airport. Therefore, from now until then Once the construction of Long Thanh airport is completed, Can Tho International Airport and Cam Ranh International Airport will also be developed to reduce the load on Tan Son Nhat, so that by then there will not be many international visitors for the airport. Long Thanh and other airlines are not foolish to open flights when there are no guests,” said Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Thien Tong. The second point noted by the expert is the financial and economic efficiency of the railway. Assuming that when the construction of this route is completed and tickets are collected, will the collected ticket money offset the site clearance costs, railway construction costs, operating costs… or not? Not to mention, if the fare is higher than other means of transport, it is easier for passengers to choose to go by road rather than this railway. “We have to figure out how much those customers pay for a metro ticket between Tan Son Nhat and Long Thanh, how much is the money collected in a year, how many years will it take to recover the capital? Midway station to serve guests wishing to go to Long Thanh and Tan Son Nhat, that is only secondary,” the expert pointed out. The third and most important point, according to Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Thien Tong, is where to invest, especially in the context of high public debt today. He also reiterated his concerns about Long Thanh airport. The project has been pressed to start construction since the beginning of this year, but worries about the investment capital, feasibility and economic efficiency of the project are still there. The state has to invest a lot of money to build Long Thanh airport, and also has to invest a lot in connecting traffic between the airport and Ho Chi Minh City, the area from the South Central region, and the Mekong Delta to bring tourists. to the airport. However, when the airport and traffic connection system is completed, whether there will be visitors to Long Thanh is still an open question and in the event that Long Thanh airport has no guests, it will be a waste. extremely large and must have someone responsible.

The Ministry of Health said that 16 new cases are all cases of Covid-19 entry, isolated in Ba Ria – Vung Tau (5 cases), Ho Chi Minh City. HCMC (3 shifts), Hanoi (3 shifts), Da Nang (3 shifts) and Quang Nam (2 shifts). Specifically:

Patient 2718 is a male, 31 years old, with an address in Dong Anh district, Hanoi.

Patient 2719 is a female, 32 years old, located in Italy Yen district, Nam Dinh province.

Patient 2720 is a female, 29 years old, with an address in Quynh Luu district, Nghe An province.

Patient 2721 is a female, 29 years old, with an address in Bang Bang town, Tay Ninh province.

Patient 2722 is a male, 39 years old, located in Italy Yen district, Nam Dinh province.

On April 12, 5 patients from Russia entered Tan Son Nhat Airport on flight VN5062 and were quarantined immediately after entering Ba Ria – Vung Tau province. Currently, patients are isolated and treated at Long Dien District Medical Center, Ba Ria – Vung Tau Province.

Patient 2723 is a male, 38 years old, who is an Indian national. On April 10, patients from India entered Tan Son Nhat Airport on flight EK392 and were quarantined immediately after entering Ho Chi Minh City. Hcm. The April 12 test result was positive for SARS-CoV-2.

Patient 2724 is a female, 50 years old, with an address in District 8, Ho Chi Minh City. Hcm. On April 10, patients from the U.S. transiting Korea entered Tan Son Nhat Airport on flight OZ735 and were quarantined immediately after entering Ho Chi Minh City. Hcm. As a result of the April 12 test, the patient tested positive for SARS-CoV-2.

Patient 2725 is a male, 58 years old, a U.S. citizenship professional. On March 28, patients from the U.S. transiting Singapore entered Tan Son Nhat Airport on flight SQ178 and were quarantined immediately after entering Ho Chi Minh City. Hcm. As a result of the April 12 test, the patient tested positive for SARS-CoV-2.

3 patients 2723-2725 are currently isolated and treated at Cu Chi Field Hospital.

Patient 2726 is a male, 32 years old, with an address in Lam Thao district, Phu Tho province.

Patient 2727 is a male, 38 years old, with an address in Luc Nam district, Bac Giang province.

Patient 2728 is a male, 23 years old, with an address in Nga Son district, Thanh Hoa province.

On April 9, the three patients from Japan entered Noi Bai Airport on flight JL751 and were quarantined immediately after entering Hanoi. As a result of the April 13 test, the patients tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. Currently, the patients are isolated and treated at the Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases of Dong Anh Facility.

Patient 2729 is a male, 30 years old, a Vietnamese citizen, with an address in Quynh Phu district, Thai Binh province. On April 12, patients from Japan entered Da Nang Airport on flight VJ2519 and were quarantined immediately after entering Da Nang city. Currently, patients are isolated and treated at Da Nang Lung Hospital.

Patient 2730 is a male, 25 years old, with an address in Hong Ngu city, Dong Thap province.

Patient 2731 is a male, 30 years old, with an address in Bien Hoa city, Dong Nai province.

On April 5, 3 patients 2730-2731 from Japan entered Da Nang Airport on flight VN5319 and were quarantined immediately after entering Da Nang. Currently, the patients are isolated and treated at Da Nang Lung Hospital.

Patient 2732 is a female, 25 years old, with an address in Nghi Xuan district, Ha Tinh province.

Patient 2733 is a female, 24 years old, with an address in Thanh Liem district, Ha Nam province.

On April 11, 2 patients 2732-2733 from Japan entered Da Nang Airport on flight VN5313 and were quarantined immediately after entering Da Nang city. Currently, patients are isolated and treated at Quang Nam Central General Hospital.

Thus, by the afternoon of April 14, Vietnam recorded a total of 2,733 cases of Covid-19, including 1,570 domestic infections. From January 27 to now, 13 provinces and cities have recorded 910 cases.

In the past 27 days, Vietnam has not recorded new cases in the community.

Localities are still isolated, monitoring the health of nearly 39,000 people, including 517 in isolation at the hospital, isolating nearly 23,000 people, isolating at home more than 15,000 people.

Treatment facilities have cured 2,445 cases of Covid-19, the death toll is still 35.