Delegates at the webinar (Photo: VNA)
Speaking at the event, Vietnamese Ambassador to Thailand Phan Chi Thanh informed participants about COVID-19 prevention and control in Thailand and Vietnam.
The ambassador affirmed the attention of the Vietnamese Party, State leaders and the embassy to health and life of the Vietnamese community in the country in the spirit of leaving no one behind and overcoming the pandemic together.
At the webinar, the embassy staff offered updates on plans to help the Vietnamese community in Thailand access vaccines at the earliest, repatriation flights, citizen protection work as well as Thailand’s regulations regarding entry-exit.
Mr. Trinh Cao Son, President of the General Association of Vietnamese People in Thailand, thanked the embassy for sending 8,000 USD from the COVID-19 prevention and control fund to the Vietnamese community in Thailand.
Representatives of the Vietnamese associations in Thai provinces shared information about their activities and offered ideas to link the Vietnamese community in the country together to help those hit by the pandemic.
First Secretary of the embassy in charge of citizen protection work Le Trung Kien told Vietnam News Agency correspondents in Bangkok that said the embassy set up a permanent working group to direct the fight against the pandemic in the embassy and offer timely and effective citizen protection.
Since early this year, the embassy has partnered with domestic and host authorities to bring about 700 Vietnamese citizens home on a chartered and a repatriation flight.
In 2020, the embassy also helped bring about 1,500 citizens home on four repatriation and two chartered flights.
The embassy also offered medicines, food and necessities to disadvantaged Vietnamese people infected with the virus or stranded by the pandemic. It is actively looking for other sources to support Vietnamese citizens to get vaccinated, with about 100 free injections being accepted so far./.