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More religious volunteers join frontliners in COVID-19 fight

An additional 115 volunteers who are dignitaries and followers of religions began joining frontliners in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic in Ho Chi Minh City on August 20 in response to Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong’s appeal.
More religious volunteers join frontliners in COVID-19 fight ảnh 1Vice Secretary of HCM City's Party Committee Nguyen Ho Hai presents essential supplies to a Buddhist volunteer (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) – An additional 115 volunteers who are dignitaries andfollowers of religions began joining frontliners in the fight against theCOVID-19 pandemic in Ho Chi Minh City on August 20 in response to Party GeneralSecretary Nguyen Phu Trong’s appeal.

This time, 23 Buddhist volunteers participated in COVID-19prevention and control at temporary COVID-19 treatment hospital No. 10, while 92 Catholic volunteers worked at the COVID-19 Intensive Care Hospital.

To Thi Bich Chau, Presidentof the Vietnam Fatherland Front of Ho Chi Minh City, thanked local religiousdignitaries for sending volunteers to join the frontliners in the fight againstthe pandemic to reduce the burden on medical workers and help care for activepatients.

The solidarity and sharing of resources and sentiments fromprovinces and cities throughout the country, and from people, religiousorganisations, dignitaries and followers are a great motivation and spiritualencouragement to the frontliners, thus creating the combined strength to help thecity soon defeat the pandemic, Chau said.

Venerable Thich Thien Quy, Deputy Head and Chief Secretaryof the Executive Board of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS) in Ho Chi MinhCity, said that the city's VBS will continue to encourage monks, nuns andBuddhist followers to take part in the fight.

Pastor Joseph Dao Nguyen Vu, Chief of Office of the Vietnam CatholicBishops' Conference, said that through their voluntary activities, Catholicvolunteers want to transmit more positive energy and self-confidence in the life topatients and doctors on the front line against the pandemic.

Earlier, 385 religious volunteers participated in COVID-19prevention and control activities at the city’s COVID-19 treatment hospitals./.
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