COMMUNITY

More than 2.57 million text messages had been sent to raise funds for Vietnam’s COVID-19 pandemic mitigation efforts as of Wednesday afternoon, the Ministry of Information and Communications (MOIC) reported.

Thousands of people have waited at automated rice dispenser in Hanoi amid difficulties caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Dantri/DTiNews online Newspaper has transferred VND1 billion (USD43.478) which readers sent to support the Hanoi-based National Hospital for Tropical Diseases to fight the Covid-19 epidemic.

Dantri/DTiNews has transferred VND230m from readers to a hospital in Quang Nam Province for their fight against Covid-19.

The Vietnam Red Cross Society Central Committee said on April 24 that it has decided to offer a relief package worth over 11,700 USD to victims affected by recent hailstorms in Dien Bien, Lao Cai and Lai Chau.

A poor ethnic minority girl in the northern province of Cao Bang Province is calling for community assistance as she is on the verge of death due to leukaemia.

A woman in Ha Giang Province has been donated VND562m (USD24,000) by Dantri readers to cover hospital fees.

The first Zero Cost Happy Supermarket has opened in HCM City to support the poor amid difficulties caused by Covid-19 pandemic.

Vietnamese Ambassador to Japan Vu Hong Nam took receipt of two Eliciae MV20 ventilators manufactured by Japan’s Metran Co., Ltd at a ceremony in Tokyo on April 20.

Three people in a family in Ha Nam Province are in desperate need of financial support to help cover hospital treatment after a fire.

SK Vietnam on April 22 donated 100 SARS-CoV2 test kit sets, which can be used for 10,000 tests to the Hanoi's Department of Health in order to support the city's efforts in controlling the Covid-19 epidemic.

The Public Security Department of central Thua Thien-Hue province on April 18 presented medical supplies and necessities to the Security Departments of the Lao provinces of Salavan and Sekong to support them in the COVID-19 fight.

A Dantri reader has sent VND700m (USD29,800) to help cover medical treatment for a family who were in critical condition after eating poisonous mushrooms.

Three children in the northern province of Bac Giang are seeking help after being abandoned by their parents.

Many people have transported rice to automatic rice distribution machines in Hanoi to help low-income people amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

Two small children in Ha Tinh District are in need of financial support after their mother died and their father is stranded in Rumania.

A man in Hai Duong is in need of financial support to treat injuries caused by an accident.

A 70-year-old blind man in Ha Nam Province is in need of financial help to support his sister who has mental problems.

A poor woman in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang is facing a malignant pelvic tumour, while she is in the 28th week of pregnancy.