Vietnam offers medical supplies to Cambodia amid Covid-19

Health officials in personal protective equipment (PPE) inoculate people with the second dose of China's Sinopharm Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine at a pagoda in Phnom Penh on May 20, 2021, as part of the government's campaign to halt the rising number of cases of the virus. - AFP

HANOI, May 22 (Bernama): Vietnam has offered medical supplies, including 800 ventilators, 2 million medical masks and 300,000 N95 surgical masks to Cambodia to support the neighbouring country in Covid-19 fight, reports Vietnam News Agency (VNA).

Addressing a ceremony on Thursday to symbolically hand over the supplies to the Cambodian side, Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Quoc Dung expressed his deep sympathy towards Cambodia over the complicated developments of the pandemic in the country.