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| Anti-virus forces on duty at a border area. The prime minister has decided to extract VND1.55 trillion from the backup State budget for 2021 to fund the fight against Covid-19. - Photo: VNA |
The Ministry of National Defense will spend it on several tasks, including quarantining returnees or direct contacts of confirmed positive cases, controlling or preventing illegal entry, conducting Covid-19 tests and offering meal support and allowances to anti-virus forces during the 2021 Lunar New Year holiday.
The prime minister also ordered the ministries of Finance and National Defense to assume responsibility for the use of the fund to ensure transparency and fairness, the local media reported.
Earlier in late June, the prime minister allocated VND7.65 trillion to the Ministry of Health for the purchase of 30 million doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine and 31 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine.
The Government has spent VND168.8 trillion to support firms and residents and fund the fight against Covid-19 in 2020 and during the first half of 2021, the Economic Committee told the National Assembly on July 22. SGT
(Theo VietNamNet)
Vietnam's initiative to establish a vaccine fund is a humane idea
Mỗi quốc gia đều có những chính sách riêng để đảm bảo nguồn kinh phí mua vắc xin phòng Covid-19. Trong đó, sáng kiến thành lập Quỹ vắc xin của Chính phủ Việt Nam được xem là một trong những ý tưởng nhân văn.
People's spirit in fighting Covid-19
Recently, some businessmen told me that they are willing to contribute money to the Government to buy vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus if the Government launches a fund to supplement the budget shortage.
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