Society

Poland hands over COVID-19 vaccine batch to Vietnam

A batch of 501,600 COVID-19 vaccine doses donated by the Polish Government was handed over to Vietnam at a ceremony held at Warsaw Chopin on August 20.
Poland hands over COVID-19 vaccine batch to Vietnam ảnh 1A batch of 501,600 COVID-19 vaccine doses donated by the Polish Government was handed over to Vietnam at a ceremony held at Warsaw Chopin on August 20. (Photo: VNA)
Moscow (VNA) – A batch of 501,600 COVID-19 vaccine doses donated bythe Polish Government was handed over to Vietnam at a ceremony held at WarsawChopin on August 20.

Present at the handover ceremony was Deputy Foreign Minister Paweł Jabłoński,Deputy Health Minister Anna Goławska and head of the Government Agency forStrategic Reserves Michał Kuczmierowski of Poland, and Vietnamese Ambassador toPoland Nguyen Hung.

The batch of the vaccine is set to arrive in Vietnam on August 21.

Addressing the event, the Polish officials stressed the importance of thetraditional friendship and relationship between Poland and Vietnam, and highlyappreciated the valuable assistance from the Vietnamese Government and people,including the Vietnamese community in Poland, in the early days of thecoronavirus outbreak in the country.

The Government of Poland shares difficulties facing Vietnam and expects theassistance will help Vietnam will soon overcome the pandemic to promoteeconomic recovery, they said.

Ambassador Nguyen Hung thanked the Polish Government andpeople for their valuable assistance, and expressed his belief that the twocountries will win the fight against the pandemic together, and the 70-year traditionalrelationship and multifaceted cooperation between Vietnam and Poland willcontinue to grow.

On August 17, the Polish Government announced its decision to donate morethan 501,000 doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to Vietnam, its willingnessto transfer an additional 3 million doses of vaccines, along with a grant of essentialmedical equipment worth 4 million USD.

Vietnam is the first non-European country to which Polandprovides the COVID-19 vaccine and medical equipment.

It is expected that a shipment of essentialmedical equipment for COVID-19 prevention and control will be transferred toVietnam in early September./.
VNA
#COVID-19#Poland#vaccine#AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine#Vietnam#VietnamPlus#Vietnam news
Follow VietnamPlus

Related News

COVID-19 pandemic pushes business online

COVID-19 pandemic pushes business online

As Vietnamese enterprises are facing difficulties due to the COVID-19 pandemic, online trading is considered a "tool" to help them turn the situation around, and at the same time opening up many opportunities for businesses to join the global supply chain.

See more

Illustrative image (Photo: VNA)

ASEAN’s goods, culinary culture promoted in Europe

The ASEAN Committee in Prague (ACP) launched an "ASEAN Food Corner" on October 22, aiming to promote the culinary culture and introduce goods from ASEAN countries to consumers in the Czech Republic and Europe at large.

If the plan is approved, public employees will enjoy a continuous 9-day Tet break from January 25 to February 2 next year. (Photo: VNA)

2025 Lunar New Year holiday plan submitted to PM

The Ministry of Labour – Invalids and Social Affairs on October 22 submitted a proposal to the Prime Minister regarding the schedule for the 2025 Lunar New Year (Tet) – Vietnam’s largest traditional celebration – and other national holidays.

Illustrative image (Photo: VNA)

Kien Giang continues to take firm stand against IUU fishing

The Standing Board of the Party Committee of southern Kien Giang province has called for strengthening the Party's leadership in the fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, part of a broader national effort to have the “yellow card” warning lifted by the European Commission (EC).

Yen Bai city in the northern province of Yen Bai is severely affected by Typhoon Yagi. (Photo: VNA)

Vietnam receives EU’s humanitarian aid for Typhoon Yagi victims

The Vietnam Red Cross Society (VNRC) Central Committee has received humanitarian response and early recovery support from the European Union and its member states through the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)' Emergency Appeal to assist the Vietnamese people affected by Typhoon Yagi and its subsequent floodings.

Conscripted Vietnamese workers honoured with ceremony in France (Photo: VNA)

Conscripted Vietnamese workers honoured with ceremony in France

A solemn ceremony was held on October 20 in the southern city of Arles, Bouches-du-Rhône prefecture of France, to mark the 10th anniversary of the memorial dedicated to Indochinese workers who came to work in the Camargue region during World War II.

At the signing ceremony of a cooperation agreement between Bac Lieu and Uiseong county, Gyeongsangbuk-do province on sending local labourers to the RoK to work seasonally under the form of locality-to-locality collaboration between the two countries in the 2023 - 2027 period. (Photo: VNA)

Bac Lieu, Korean locality sign labour cooperation agreement

The Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu on October 21 signed a cooperation agreement with Uiseong county, Gyeongsangbuk-do province of the Republic of Korea (RoK) on sending local labourers to the RoK to work seasonally under the form of locality-to-locality collaboration between the two countries in the 2023 - 2027 period.

(Photo: VNA)

Tien Giang strives to reduce poverty rate to 0.87% this year

The Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Committees at all levels in the southern province of Tien Giang have collaborated with agencies and organisations to speed up social security programmes, aiming to reduce the province's poverty rate to 0.87% this year, said Vice President of the provincial VFF Committee Huynh Van Hai.

The Chinese sailor is rushed to FV (Franco-Vietnamese) Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City for treatment as soon as he is brought to the shore. (Photo: VNA)

Chinese sick sailor on vessel AMIS STAR provided with first aid

A ship from the Vietnam Maritime Search and Rescue Coordination Centre (VMRCC) on October 20 provided first aid to critically-ill Chinese sailor on a Liberia-flagged vessel off the coast of the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau before bringing him to the shore for further treatment.

At the meeting between Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Vu Chien Thang and UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Nada Al-Nashif. (Photo: VNA)

Vietnam respects right to freedom of belief, religion: official

Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Vu Chien Thang highlighted Vietnam’s consistent policy of respecting and protecting the right to freedom of belief and religion for all people, while meeting with UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Nada Al-Nashif in his recent trip to Switzerland.