Specifically, Before the outbreak of COVID-19 the number of masks, protective clothing and gloves (collectively referred to as PPE group) export from Vietnam to the US was quite modest when the whole year of 2019 was only USD 59 million.

On February 2, 2020, DOPHA was announced by the Ministry of Health as one of 24 companies producing medical instruments, medical masks, nCoV prevention and fighting clothes in Official Letter No. 403 / BYT-TB-CT.

This morning (February 16), at Nguyen Gian Thanh Street, District 10, Ho Chi Minh City (the largest pharmacy market in Saigon), thousands of people gathered to buy medical masks.