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Vietnam Airlines, Vinpearl offer 5,000 trips to frontline COVID-19 health workers

National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines and Vingroup’s Vinpearl JSC will present 5,000 five-star trips to health workers on the frontlines of the fight against COVID-19.
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Hanoi (VNA) - National flagcarrier Vietnam Airlines and Vingroup’s Vinpearl JSC will present 5,000 five-startrips to health workers on the frontlines of the fight against COVID-19.

Under a specialprogramme proposed to the Ministry of Health, each medical worker will receivea round-trip ticket and a stay of three days and two nights at one of Vinpearl’sfive-star resorts after the pandemic has passed.

Each healthworker can go with three family members, with two receiving a 75 percentdiscount on airline tickets.

A representativefrom the Ministry of Health said the involvement of companies such as VietnamAirlines and Vinpearl will give medical workers an added boost as they fight thepandemic.

As at the afternoon of April 22, Vietnam had a total of 268 COVID-19 cases, of which 160 people (59.7 percent) were infected abroadand 108 people (40.3 percent) were infected in the local community.

Six more COVID-19 patients at the National Hospital of TropicalDiseases were announced to have recovered on the same day, bringing the number of patients in the countrygiven the all-clear to 222./.



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