Vietnam has donated 550,000 face masks to France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Britain. FMTNews MedicalSupplies Diplomacy
A delivery man waits for online order outside a cafe in Hanoi on April 1.
Vietnam, despite its lack of resources compared with its giant neighbour, has donated 550,000 face masks to France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Britain, and 390,000 to neighbouring Cambodia and 340,000 to another neighbour, Laos. The next day, state media showed photos of European ambassadors receiving boxes of masks from Vietnam’s foreign ministry in a ceremony showcasing the donation.
Key to spurring that activity will be a much-anticipated EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement , said Thayer, which Vietnam’s rubber-stamp National Assembly will ratify later this month.There are now 40 firms producing 7 million fabric masks a day in Vietnam, the government said on Thursday.Vietnam is not the only country keen to show that it is able to offer its support to the world, however.
South Korea has also won attention for its campaign against the virus and on Thursday it hosted an online presentation outlining its containment measures for about 400 health officials and experts from 13 countries, including the US, Mexico, and Italy. Even though Vietnam needs similar equipment in its own efforts against the virus, it has made donations to neighbours with large Vietnamese communities “on the basis of traditional friendship and relations”, foreign ministry spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang told Reuters.
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