A the hand-over ceremony (Photo: VNA)Da Nang (VNA) - Moredonations in cash and kind have been made to support the fight against COVID-19in the central city of Da Nang and in HCM City.
The Da Nang Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF)Committee on August 18 received almost 1.8 billion VND (78,000 USD) in cash andover 2.24 billion VND worth of equipment from the organisers of an online musicshow raising funds for the coronavirus fight.
Programme organisers said they will present theremaining donations to neighbouring Quang Nam province in the next few days.
On the same day, the Thanh nien (Young people)newspaper handed over blood filtering equipment worth 1.2 billion VND as wellas a ventilator to the Da Nang Health Department. The city’s Department ofConstruction also sent 100 million VND to local anti-COVID-19 forces.
In HCM City, a local fund for COVID-19prevention and control had received donations of over 230 billion VND in cashand kind as of August 17, about 116 billion VND of which was handed over to frontlineforces and those facing pandemic-related difficulties.
Money and goods, including rice, protectivegear, hand sanitiser, and medical face masks from the fund have been deliveredto Da Nang and Quang Nam, which are hotspots for the current COVID-19 outbreak,HCM City’s health workers engaged in fighting the virus Da Nang, and borderguards tasked with pandemic prevention in the northern border provinces of HaGiang and Son La, according to President of the HCM City VFF Committee To ThiBich Chau.
The committee is set to continue working withrelevant parties to step up communications to raise more donations anddistribute support to anti-COVID-19 forces and those affected in the timeahead./.
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