Vo Hai Son, Deputy Director of the ministry's Department of Disease Prevention, said Article 22 of Government Decree 165 stipulates that the health minister will determine which groups of travelers are required to submit health declarations and when such measures should be applied, depending on the global infectious disease situation and the risk of diseases entering Vietnam.
"The regulation should not be understood as a mandatory and permanent requirement for all people entering, exiting or transiting through Vietnam from July 1," Son said.
According to the ministry, health declarations at border gates will only be implemented when deemed necessary for specific infectious diseases and in line with prevailing epidemiological conditions.
A security man (C) gives instructions to passengers at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City during the Lunar New Year holiday, February 2026. Photo by VnExpress/Thanh Tung
The clarification comes after reports and social media posts suggested that all foreign visitors to Vietnam would be required to submit health declarations from July 1 and complete forms through the website tokhaiyte.vn, which in the past was used for Covid-19 epidemiological tracing.
