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The Vietnamese Fatherland Front (VFF) is planning to hold a virtual programme on May 27 to call on organisations and individuals to make donations in the joint efforts to fight the Covid-19 pandemic. |
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The VFF said the latest coronavirus outbreak in Vietnam, with more contagious variants, has put hundreds of thousands in quarantine and forced some areas to impose lockdown or restriction measures. Frontline forces, including health workers, the military, police and local wardens are toiling away day and night and encountering great difficulty and grave danger while facing a shortage of personal protective equipment. The pandemic has also aggravated the already struggling lives of many workers, poor households and policy beneficiaries. Therefore, the VFF’s programme is expected to motivate Vietnamese people at home and abroad to continue donating money, medical equipment, food and essential goods to support those affected by the pandemic, including poor people, vulnerable people and those in quarantine areas. The drive is also expected to supplement more resources for the government to buy vaccines, ventilators and other medical equipment, provide assistance to quarantine facilities, and boost the morale of frontline workers. On May 25, President of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour Nguyen Dinh Khang handed over a donation of VND2 billion (US$86,700) to Deputy Defence Minister Vu Hai San as a tribute to the soldiers taking part in the efforts to contain Covid-19. On the same day, the national oil and gas group PVN announced that it had donated VND30 billion (US$1.3 million) to the Vietnamese vaccine fund while the Vietnam Fatherland Front in Hai Phong received donations worth a total of VND670 million from four organisations in the city. On May 25, Yen Bai Province sent 22 health workers to Bac Giang to help the province cope with a major Covid-19 outbreak, in addition to 15 health workers in a previous dispatch. In a related development, the national carrier Vietnam Airlines will provide free tickets to health workers sent by the Ministry of Health, local Centres for Disease Control and hospitals to deal with the epidemic in the two provinces of Bac Giang and Bac Ninh. On May 25, the Hanoi Capital High Command presented medical supplies to the Vientiane Capital Military Command of Laos while border guards in An Giang Province presented face masks, personal protective equipment and food to Cambodian border guards in Kandal Province. Source: Nhan Dan Online |
