On October 2 alone, the city received more than VND77 billion in cash and transfer to pandemic control and over VND1.4 billion to purchase COVID-19 vaccines as well as medical supplies and equipment from sponsors, including 2 million rapid test kits worth VND88 billion donated by VPBank.
Since the beginning of this year, the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of HCM City and the committee for raising, receiving and distributing funds for COVID-19 prevention and control have received over VND312 billion in cash to support the purchase of vaccines against COVID-19 and get food and essential goods with total value of more than VND364 billion.
Since July 1 to October 2, 194 individuals, businesses and organisations inside and outside the country have donated medical supplies and medicines worth over VND2.61 trillion.
The committee and municipal authorities have so far distributed over VND853 billion in cash and more than VND354 billion worth of goods to COVID-19 prevention and control activities in the city.
