HCM City unveils 2nd COVID financial relief package
Ho Chi Minh City is set to offer a second financial relief package for businesses and workers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to its Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.
A free rice dispensing machine for poor people and those out of work is installed at a kindergarten in district 12’s Thanh Loc ward, which is under lockdown. (Photo laodong.vn)
HCM City (VNS/VNA) – Ho Chi Minh City is set to offer asecond financial relief package for businesses and workers affected by theCOVID-19 pandemic, according to its Department of Labour, Invalids andSocial Affairs.
Tourism, transport and small and medium-sized businesses, teachers,laid-off workers, and informal sector workers will be beneficiaries of paymentsthat will be made between this month and December.
Le Minh Tan, director of the department, said it was working withauthorities in the city’s 21 districts and Thu Duc city to compile a listof affected businesses and laid-off and informal sector workers who areeligible to receive the payments.
The department proposes to pay workers who were laid off for at least amonth due to the pandemic monthly relief payments of 1.8 million VND (78 USD),Tan said.
The department allocated 611 billion VND (26.5 million USD) and 181billion VND (7.85 million USD) for businesses and informal sector workers inthe first relief package last year.
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Free food, essential goods
More than 600 workers placed under quarantine at the VINA Kitchen WareJSC at the Tan Binh Industrial Park in HCM City on June 1 receivedessential goods and food for free from the Trade Union of the industrialparks and export processing zones.
They are quarantined after coming into close contact with COVID-19patients.
Huynh Van Tuan, Chairman of the Trade Union, said the workers gotminimum wages and other support in quarantine.
Infected workers would get financial assistance of up to 3 million VND (130USD) and others would get 1.5 million VND (65 USD), he said.
A free rice dispensing machine for poor people and those out of work hasbeen installed at a kindergarten in district 12’s Thanh Loc ward, which isunder lockdown.
Disadvantaged people could get free rice and essential goods from astore set up next to the machine, Nguyen Duc Vinh, Secretary of the Thanh LocWard Youth Union, said.
Some three to four tonnes of vegetables transported from Lam Dong provinceare delivered to people quarantined in the Thanh Loc ward everythree or four days./.
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A free rice dispensing machine for poor people and those out of work is installed at a kindergarten in district 12’s Thanh Loc ward, which is under lockdown. (Photo laodong.vn) 
