Overview

Chinese Government donates COVID-19 prevention supplies to the Government of Vietnam in September 2020

Commitments (Constant USD, 2023)$107,300

Commitment Year•2020Country of Activity•Viet NamDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•Viet NamSector•HealthFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date: Sep 29, 2020

Start (actual): Sep 29, 2020

End (actual): Sep 29, 2020

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The handover ceremony took place in Hanoi, Vietnam, the capital of Vietnam. More locational information can be found at: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1903516

Stakeholders

Organizations involved in projects and activities supported by financial and in-kind transfers from Chinese government and state-owned entities

Funding agencies

Government Agencies

Unspecified Chinese Government Institution

Receiving agencies

Government Agencies

Government of Viet Nam

Loan description

Chinese Government donates COVID-19 prevention supplies to the Government of Vietnam in September 2020

Narrative

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Project narrative

On September 29, 2020, the handover ceremony of medical supplies donated by the Chinese Government to the Government of Vietnam took place in Hanoi, Vietnam. This shipment of medical supplies included 300,000 surgical masks and 20,000 medical protective masks. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Thanh Long, the Acting Minister of Health of Vietnam, and Chinese Ambassador Hung Ba attended the ceremony. They signed a memorandum of understanding on the handover of anti-epidemic aid items between the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the Government of the People's Republic of China. According to an article posted by the Vietnam Ministry of Health, Prof. Dr. Nguyen Thanh Long sincerely thanked the Chinese Government for providing medical supplies.

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