Binh Dinh (VNA) - Some 8 million face maskswill be presented to healthcare workers, police officers and border guardforces, and people in difficult circumstances during the fight againstCOVID-19, under a project funded by the CP Vietnam Corporation’s charitablefund.
The project was launched on July 28 in the south-centralprovince of Binh Dinh, where the CPPC medical face mask plant invested by the CPcorporation was also inaugurated on the same day.
Of the free face masks, 4 million will go to healthworkers, 1 million to border guard forces, 2.5 million to Vietnamese at homeand abroad, and 500,000 to Thai citizens in Vietnam, said Le Nhat Thuy, deputydirector general of CP and chairwoman of the CP charitable fund.
On the occasion, the project handed over 500,000 facemasks as relief aid to officials involved in fighting the pandemic and people inneed through the Vietnam Youth Federation and the Da Nang city young doctors’association.
Located at the Phu Tai Industrial Park in Binh Dinh’scapital Quy Nhon, the CPPC face mask plant uses machinery from Thailand and isexpected to produce about 1.2 million masks a month./.