COVID-19 testing (Photo: VNA)Berlin (VNA)
– Hessen state and the of Germany on July 15 presented
160,000 rapid COVID-19 test kits worth 500,000 EUR (590,300 USD) to help Vietnam
in the fight against the pandemic.
During a handover
ceremony held in Hessen state, Vietnamese Consul General in Frankfurt Le Quang
Long received the token of 130,000 test kits from President of the Hessen State
Parliament Boris Rhein and another token of 30,000 test kits from CEO of the Messer
Group Stefan Messer.
Long said his believes
that with the Vietnamese Government’s stringent and effective policies in
battling the pandemic, along with consensus and support of the Vietnamese
people and international friends, the country will soon bring COVID-19 under
control.
For his part, Rhein highlighted
’s traditional friendship with Vietnam, with the Vietnam-Germany
University (VGU) viewed as a lighthouse project of the sides, saying that both
sides have paid attention to and helped each other in times of hardship.
When Germany faced a
scarcity in face masks in early 2020, the Vietnamese people promptly presented
more than 100,000 masks to the European country, he recalled.
President of the Hessen State Parliament Boris Rhein (third from left) presents the aid to Vietnamese Consul General in Frankfurt Le Quang Long (second from left (Photo: VNA)Rhein took the
occasion to express his gratitude to Dr. Kambiz Ghawami, Executive Chairman of
the World University Service (WUS) non-governmental organisation, for connecting
the aid provision; and national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines for transporting the
assistance to Vietnam free of charge.
The Messer Group,
specialising in industrial gases, has operated in Vietnam in nearly 25 years, with
six plants and two others being in the pipeline.
Ghawami previously
called on all 16 German states to support Vietnam to combat . The first
batch of aid containing over 190,000 test kits from the states of Bremen,
Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Sachsen-Anhalt arrived in Vietnam in late
June./.
Source: VietnamPlus
