Rice aid comes for Vietnamese-Cambodians under COVID-19 lockdown
The first rice packages to help Vietnamese-Cambodian families living in areas under lockdown to curb the spread of COVID-19, arrived in Preah Sihanouk city of the province of the same name on April 25.
Vietnamese-Cambodian families in Tumnup Rolok receive the aid (Photo: VNA)
Phnom Penh (VNA) – The first rice packages to help Vietnamese-Cambodian families living inareas under lockdown to curb the spread of COVID-19, arrived in Preah Sihanoukcity of the province of the same name on April 25.
The Cambodian provincehas been put under a lockdown since April 23 in an attempt to contain thespread of COVID-19 in the community.
President of theKhmer-Vietnam association in Preah Sihanouk Tran Van Nam earlier informed theVietnamese Consulate General in the Cambodian province that manyVietnamese-Cambodians in Tumnup Rolok are facing food shortage. The residentialarea has been under quarantine for nearly one month since late March.
Vietnamese General Consul Vu Ngoc Ly (first from right) presents the aid to the Vietnamese-Cambodians (Photo: VNA)
With support fromrelevant agencies in Cambodia, the Consulate General delivered the rice aid to50 disadvantaged families in Tumnup Rolok on April 25. Beneficiaries were askedto follow health guidelines when receiving the aid.
Preah Sihanoukauthorities and its Red Cross Society will soon distribute food free of chargeto all residents in lockdown areas, Vietnamese General Consul Vu Ngoc Ly said.
There are no reportson Vietnamese-Cambodians contracted with the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 in PreahSihanouk, according to the Consulate General./.
President of the Cambodian People’s Party and Prime Minister of the country Hun Sen has expressed his gratitude to General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong for the latter’s message of sympathies over the COVID-19 situation in Cambodia.
The Vietnamese Embassy in Cambodia, in collaboration with the Cho Ray- Phnom Penh hospital and the Khmer-Vietnam association in Cambodia, on April 24, presented emergency relief aid to 350 households of the Vietnamese origin in Chbar Ampov district’s Champa pagoda area.
