The Ho Chi Minh City Buddhist Sangha, on May 28, presented its donation of 33 ventilators to Indian people amid COVID-19 at a ceremony held at the Indian Embassy in Hanoi.
President Nguyen Xuan Phuc has appealed to people both at home and abroad, businesses, and organisations to make material and spiritual donations to the fight against COVID-19.
VOV.VN - Various agencies, businesses, and other benefactors on May 27 donated more than VND12.5 billion to the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF), Hanoi chapter, to help bolster COVID-19 prevention and control efforts.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has issued a resolution approving in principle the establishment of a COVID-19 vaccine fund.
A donation of VND1 billion (US$43,000) will be sent from central Da Nang city to support five localities of Laos – Salavan, Champasak, Attapu, Savannakhet and Sekong – in the fight against COVID-19.
VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health (MoH) has received VND160 billion in donations from various local banks as funding for the purchase of additional novel coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine doses.
The Vietnam Electricity (EVN) has decided to donate VND1.5 billion (US$64,944) in support of COVID-19 prevention and control in Bac Ninh, Bac Giang and Da Nang, which have borne the brunt of the latest wave of the pandemic since late April.
VOV.VN - Roughly 1,000 young people participated in a day aimed at encouraging blood donations in Hanoi as part of efforts to mark Voluntary Blood Donation Day on April 7 and the upcoming World Blood Donor Day on June 14.
A working delegation of the Vietnamese Embassy and the Khmer-Vietnam Association in Cambodia handed over donations to Cambodians of Vietnamese origin living in lockdown areas in Kandal and Prey Veng provinces on March 14 and 15, where over 150 COVID-19 cases have been found, including 10 Vietnamese-Cambodians.
Nearly 15,000 blood units were successfully collected through “Chung dong mau Viet 2020” (Blood for Vietnamese 2020) programme, bringing the total units of blood that Samsung Vietnam’s employees have donated since 2010 to 100,000.