The supplies include 1,000 protective suits and 100,000 anti-bacteria masks produced by Vietnamese defense companies, which were carried by the Royal Australian Air Force.

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At the ceremony

Speaking at the event  in New York on May 19, Ambassador Quy said with the gift, the Vietnamese Government wants to share difficulties with South Sudan in the fight against the pandemic.

According to the Worldometers data, the number of COVID-19 infections reached 10,652 and deaths amounted to 115 as of May 19.

Vietnam has deployed peacekeeping forces to the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) since 2014. Later from 2018, the country launched the first level-2 field hospital with 63 medical and technical staff there who are rotated annually. There are about 18,500 in the UNMISS now.

In response to the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres’s appeal to vaccination for the UN peacekeeping mission forces, Vietnam actively inoculated staff of the level-2 hospital No.3 before their departure and carried vaccines to South Sudan to give Vietnamese forces shots.

Source: VNA