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Vietnam exports over 15 million medical masks in August
Updated: 20:04, 28/09/2021
The General Department of Vietnam Customs reported Vietnam exported over 15 million medical masks of all kinds during August, up 24.8 percent compared to the same period in 2020.
The masks were shipped abroad by 12 businesses.
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Vietnam exported over 305.6 million medical masks in the first eight months of 2021. |
In the first eight months of the year, domestic enterprises have exported over 305.6 million medical masks of all kinds, with January seeing a record high of 64.7 million masks.
The number of enterprises engaging in medical equipment export have also significantly dropped, from over 100 to only 12 at present, due to increasing orders for traditional products.
In addition, some countries are gradually getting the coronavirus disease under control thanks to the speeding up of inoculation drives.
Tran Ngoc Phuc, creator of multi-purpose Eliciae MV20 ventilator which had been presented to Vietnam in April last year, has invented an antiviral face mask.
Continuing the series of practical activities to help countries in southern Africa with their Covid-19 fight, the Vietnamese Embassy in South Africa on August 13 handed over 100,000 face masks to the representative agencies of Namibia and Botswana in Pretoria in service of their domestic anti-pandemic efforts.
The Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee's Commission for External Relations has presented 30,000 face masks to the Cambodian People's Party (CPP) Central Committee’s commissions.
Vietnamese mask manufacturer PSD on September 22 handed over 100,000 medical face masks to the Embassy of Israel in Vietnam to help Israeli people tackle Covid-19.
The National Congress of Argentina held a ceremony in Buenos Aires on September 14 to receive 20,000 medical face masks as a gift from the National Assembly (NA) of Vietnam, aiming to help the country in coping with the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
Source: NDO/VNA
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