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Vietnam willing to support India to overcome hard time due to COVID-19: Spokesperson

Vietnam has kept a close watch on COVID-19 situation in India and is willing to support the Government and people of India in this hard time, Foreign Ministry’s Spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang said on April 26.
Vietnam willing to support India to overcome hard time due to COVID-19: Spokesperson ảnh 1Foreign Ministry’s Spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam has kept a close watch on COVID-19 situation in India and is willing to support the Government and peopleof India in this hard time, Foreign Ministry’s Spokesperson Le Thi ThuHang said on April 26.

In reply to reporters' query on the COVID-19 situation in India andcitizen protection measures of Vietnam, Hang said that the Vietnamese Embassyin India had reported that the pandemic is developing complicatedly and causingnegative impacts to locals’ living conditions.

The Government of India is mobilising resources and rollingout measures to respond to the pandemic such as increasing medical equipmentand medicine and speeding up COVID-19 vaccination, she said.

“We believe that with efforts by the IndianGovernment, the situation will soon be controlled and become stable,” Hang stated.

Regarding the protection of Vietnamese citizens living,studying and working in India, Hang said that Vietnam's Foreign Ministry andrepresentative agencies in India have worked closely with authorisedagencies at home and in the host country as well as airlines to organise flights to bring nearly 1,000 Vietnamese citizens home safely.

Currently, there are about 100 Vietnamese citizens inIndia, she said, adding that Vietnamese representative agencies in India are coordinating closely with authorised agencies at home and in India to keep aclose watch on the pandemic, maintain a contact channel with the Vietnamese citizens and to be ready to conduct necessarycitizen protection measures.

In case of seeking support or report information on Vietnamese facing difficulties, citizens can contact the embassy via its citizen protection hotline at 91-7303-625-588 or the citizenprotection switchboard at 84-981-848-484, she added./.
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