Hanoi (VNA) – Head of the Vietnam’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy, on behalf of the Vietnamese Government, has symbolicallypresented anti-COVID-19 medical supplies to the Government of South Sudan.
The supplies include 1,000protective suits and 100,000 anti-bacteria masks produced by Vietnamese defencecompanies, which were carried by the Royal Australian Air Force.
Speaking at the event in New York on May 19, AmbassadorQuy said with the gift, the Vietnamese Government wants to share difficultieswith South Sudan in the fight against the pandemic.
According to theWorldometers data, the number of COVID-19 infections reached 10,652 and deathsamounted to 115 as of May 19.
Vietnam has deployed peacekeeping forces in the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) since 2014. Later from 2018, the country launched the level-2 fieldhospital with 63 medical and technical staff there who are rotated annually.There are about 18,500 in the UNMISS now.
In response to the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres’s appeal to vaccination for the UNpeacekeeping mission forces, Vietnam actively inoculated staff of the level-2hospital No.3 before their departure and carried vaccines to South Sudan togive Vietnamese forces shots./.
Vietnam, South Sudan establish diplomatic ties
Vietnam and South Sudan signed a joint communiqué on establishing diplomatic relations between the two countries at the headquarters of Vietnam’s permanent mission to the United Nations (UN) in New York on February 21.