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Finance Ministry raises 320 billion VND for COVID-19 vaccine fund

The Ministry of Finance received 326 billion VND (14.1 million USD) worth of donations on June 11 from the financial and other sectors for the national COVID-19 vaccine fund.
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Hanoi (VNA) - The Ministry of Finance received 326 billion VND(14.1 million USD) worth of donations on June 11 from the financial and other sectorsfor the national COVID-19 vaccine fund.

Property developer the Sun Group gave 300 billion VND, the S-Generationfund 20 billion VND, the State Treasury 3 billion VND, the Vietnam LotteryCompany (Vietlott) 2 billion VND, and the Vietnam Debt and Asset TradingCorporation 1 billion VND.

Vietnam is projected to need 150 million doses of vaccine to inoculateabout 75 million people at an estimated cost of 25.2 trillion VND (nearly 1.1billion USD).

According to the management board of the fund, as of 11am on June 11 it hadreceived a total of 4.3 trillion VND from 267,928 organisations andindividuals./.
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