More than 300 Vietnamese citizens stranded in Europe and Africa returned home on a flight landing at Tan Son Nhat International Airport.

Vietnamese authorities, Vietnam-based representative offices in Europe, Africa and Vietnam Airlines will coordinate with local authorities to conduct a two-day repatriation flight of citizens.

Passengers on the flight are particularly difficult cases such as students under the age of 18, people seeking medical treatment, traveling, visiting relatives, expiring business from European countries such as Germany, England, France, Poland

In the context of many countries restricting travel due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the flight was arranged to land at two airports in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Paris, France, to pick up citizens after they moved from many

The flight is ensured strictly in terms of security, safety, regulations on disease prevention, and epidemiological hygiene.

Earlier, in the afternoon, traveling from Hanoi to the Netherlands, the flight transported anti-bacterial masks as a gift from the National Assembly Foreign Affairs Committee to the Dutch Parliament.

In the coming time, Vietnamese authorities and airlines will continue to deploy commercial flights to bring citizens back home based on citizens' wishes and capacity of isolation in localities.

Covid-19 has appeared in 213 countries and territories, causing more than 5.4 million infections and nearly 344,000 deaths.