The Vietnam-Korea Business and Investment Association (VKBIA) presents 2,300 masks, 150 bottles of hand sanitiser and medical supplies to Sa Pa Secondary School in Lao Cai province’s Sa Pa district. (Photo: VKBIA) Hanoi (VNA) – A delegation of the Vietnam-Korea Business and Investment Association (VKBIA) on May 4 and 5 presented 5,300 face masks, along with 800 bottles of hand sanitiser, 20 cans of disinfectant and other necessities to border guards and staff working at COVID-19 check points in the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau.
The entrepreneurs also handed over 2,300 masks, 150 bottles of hand sanitiser and medical supplies to Sa Pa Secondary School in Lao Cai province’s Sa Pa district, where all the students are from ethnic minority groups.
Earlier, the delegation presented similar gifts to quarantine facilities, medical centres and military units in Ho Chi Minh City, the southern province of Tay Ninh and Quang Ninh province in the north.
This is part of a programme carried out by the association across Vietnam over the past month, aiming to contribute to efforts to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
VKBIA President Tran Hai Linh said the association wants to show the solidarity between the people of Vietnam and the Republic of Korea (RoK), thus contributing to enhancing friendship and solidarity between the two countries./.
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