A meeting was held by the Ho Chi Minh City Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs on February 11 to collect Vietnamese expats’ views on the city’s potential new directions and development post-COVID-19 from an economic perspective.
Thursday, December 17, 2020, 14:49 GMT+7
A meeting of the Ho Chi Minh City Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs was organized on December 16, 2020. Photo: Vietnam News Agency
The number of foreigners in Ho Chi Minh City has decreased by 50 percent year-on-year to about 60,000 as of early December due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to statistics.
The information was announced during a meeting organized by the Ho Chi Minh City Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs on Wednesday, the
Vietnam News Agency reported.
More than 800,000 foreigners, including approximately 80,000 overseas Vietnamese, have arrived at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in the southern metropolis so far this year, Senior Lieutenant Colonel Vo Chien Thang, deputy head of the city’s immigration office, said at the gathering.