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Ministries, agencies support COVID-19 combat

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) on May 31 launched an event to raise donations in support of the COVID-19 fight.
Ministries, agencies support COVID-19 combat ảnh 1At the event (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) onMay 31 launched an event to raise donations in support of the COVID-19 fight.

At the launching ceremony, MARD Minister Le Minh Hoan stated that promoting thetradition of solidarity and the spirit of mutual support, officials and staff ofthe ministry have donated at least one day's salary to support the pandemic preventionand control.

He added that this week, the ministry’s units will implement specificactivities to sell agricultural products for farmers in localities hit byCOVID-19 in the fastest and most efficient way.

Immediately after the ceremony, MARD officials and employees donated 300million VND (13,000 USD) to the combat.

The same day, the trade union of the State Bank of Vietnam also launched acampaign to raise funds for the anti-pandemic effort, calling each official,youth union member and employee in the banking system to contribute at leastone day’s salary.

Earlier, the Ministry of Industry and Trade raised 500 million VND (21,700 USD)from its staff and handed over the sum to the Vietnam Fatherland Front CentralCommittee to support the fight against COVID-19.

Among enterprises, the PetroVietnam Gas Joint Stock Corporation (PV GAS) saidafter donating 10 billion VND (433,810 USD) to the vaccine fund together with itsparent company – Vietnam Oil and Gas Group, the firm continued to contributeanother 10 billion VND to the fund during a ceremony hosted by the FatherlandFront Committee of southern Ba Ria – Vung Tau province.

Viglacera Corporation has justdonated 5 billion VND to buy COVID-19 vaccines through the Fatherland FrontCommittee of Bac Ninh province and 1 billion VND to support frontline medicalworkers in this province./.
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