Sixty-four Vietnamese trainee nurses arrived in Japan on Monday after an approximately six-month delay due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, the Foreign Ministry said, with a further 167 set to follow later this week.
The trainees’ arrival, under a bilateral agreement that took effect in 2012, comes as Japan and Vietnam have agreed to ease border restrictions provided travelers take sufficient coronavirus transmission-related safeguard measures.
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KEYWORDS
Southeast Asia,
medicine,
Vietnam,
Immigration,
foreign trainees,
foreign workers,
nursing care,
Vietnam-Japan relations,
Vietnamese community,
COVID-19,
COVID-19 in Japan
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