Japan helps HCM City Pasteur Institute respond to Covid-19
(VOVWORLD) - The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) on Friday presented the first package of biologicals worth 9,000 USD to the Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City in support of its response to the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak.
It was part of a 36,000-USD package that JICA planned to donate to the Pasteur Institute.
The Institute currently manages disease control centers of 20 southern provinces and cities. It was assigned by the Ministry of Health to test suspected Covid-19 cases in the south.
Early this month, JICA provided the first batch of a biological package valued at 125,000 USD to the Hanoi-based National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology (NIHE). It also offered protective gears to the National Hospital Of Tropical Diseases.
JICA’s total assistance for Vietnam in the fight against Covid-19 is estimated at nearly 180,000 USD.