Overseas Vietnamese continue to support COVID-19 fight at home
The State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs held a ceremony on June 7 to receive 100 million VND (4,350 USD) from Dr Phan Bich Thien, a Vietnamese Hungarian, to support COVID-19 prevention and control activities in Vietnam.
Hanoi (VNA) - The State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs and the Ministry ofForeign Affairs held a ceremony on June 7 to receive 100 million VND (4,350 USD)from Dr Phan Bich Thien, a Vietnamese Hungarian, to support COVID-19 preventionand control activities in Vietnam.
Thien’s mother and sister handed over the money to thecommittee on her behalf. She is alsoVice President of the Vietnamese Association in Hungary.
At the ceremony, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs andChairman of the State Committee for OverseasVietnamese Affairs, Pham Quang Hieu, said he highly values Thien’s assistancefor Vietnam’s COVID-19 fight.
Since the pandemic first broke out in the country, hewent on, Vietnamese people from all around the world have donated cash and goodsin a show of mutual support.
Responding to a call from the Party, State, and the VietnamFatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee, overseas Vietnamese have contributed toVietnam’s COVID-19 vaccine fund.
Along with receiving support from overseas Vietnamese,the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has proposed policies and directly organised activitiesto support and raise funds for assisting Vietnamese communities abroad to overcomethe difficulties posed by the pandemic.
Relevant agencies have coordinated to arrange 468 flightsto safely repatriate 113,000 Vietnamese from more than 59 countries and territorieswhile sending more than 830,000 face masks and medical supplies and necessities toVietnamese people in over 20 pandemic-hit localities, he noted.
The ministry has also received food and medical suppliesfrom many agencies, localities, and enterprises for the Vietnamese community inCambodia, which reflects the tradition of solidarity and mutual support among Vietnamesepeople and the attention of the Party and State to Vietnamese communities abroadin a spirit of not leaving anyone behind.
According to the State Committee for OverseasVietnamese Affairs, on May 31, Steve Bui, Chairman of a Japan-based financialconsultation and investment group and Chairman of the Steve Bui & Friends Foundation,presented nearly 1,000 bottles of hand sanitiser and 9,000 N5 facemasks worth nearly300 million VND to medical staff in the two COVID-19 hotspots of Bac Giang and BacNinh provinces.
On June 1, representatives from the Vietnam-Korea Businessmen & Investment Association (VKBIA) and the Saigon Share charity groupvisited and presented medical supplies to frontline forces in the COVID-19 fightin HCM City’s Go Vap district.
The Overseas Vietnamese Association in Macau (China) alsohanded over 131 million VND to the VFF Central Committee to support pandemic preventionand control activities./.
Firms under the Commission for the Management of State Capital at Enterprises (CMSC) had raised 2.36 trillion VND (102.71 million USD) for the COVID-19 vaccine fund as of June 2.
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Taking samples for COVID-19 testing (Photo: VNA) 
