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Over 31,000 illegal entrants caught entering Vietnam in 2020 amid Covid fears
By Hoang Thuy, Nguyen Quy January 9, 2021 | 02:31 pm GMT+7
Border guards in Lang Son Province which borders China, February 2020. Photo by VnExpress/Giang Huy.
Border troops detained 31,460 people who tried to illegally enter the country last year as the government stepped up efforts, including border closures, to combat Covid-19.
They included 25,000 people entering from China and the rest were from Laos and Cambodia, Major General Nguyen Xuan Kien, director of the Department of Military Medicine, said at a meeting held on Friday to review the Covid-19 fight.
Vietnam has a land border of more than 5,000 km, 117 border gates and 88 crossings with China, Laos and Cambodia.