German-donated COVID-19 test kits arrive in Vietnam
Hanoi (VNA) – National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines
successfully carried 180,000 COVID-19 test kits from Germany to Vietnam on
September 4.
It was the third batch out of 1 million test kits donated by
authorities and people of 16 German states to the Vietnamese Government to
fight the pandemic.
Weighing nearly 3.5 tonnes, the batch worth nearly 615,000 EUR
was carried on a direct flight between Frankfurt and Cam Ranh international
airport in the central province of Khanh Hoa. After arriving in Vietnam, it
will be received by Pasteur Institute of Nha Trang on behalf of the Health Ministry.
The carrier has so far transported over 573,000 test kits worth
some 1.7 million EUR presented by Germany to Vietnam.
The programme was launched by the World University
Service of Germany (WUS) under the initiative of Vietnam Airlines. WUS
is a major and long-term partner of Vietnam Airlines in the exchange of
students and professors between Vietnamese and German universities as well as
in social activities.
On September 3, the Japanese Government also
decided to offer additional COVID-19 vaccines to Vietnam, which are expected to
arrive in the country on September 9.
Japan has so far
donated some 3 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine to Vietnam./.