Update: June, 04/2021 - 11:00 | A free rice dispensing machine for poor people and those out of work is installed at a kindergarten in District 12’s Thạnh Lộc Ward, which is under lockdown. Photo laodong.vn HCM CITY HCM City is set to offer a second financial relief package for businesses and workers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to its Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs. Tourism, transport and small and medium-sized businesses, teachers, laid-off workers, and informal sector workers will be beneficiaries of payments that will be made between this month and December. Lê Minh Tấn, director of the department, said it was working with authorities in city’s 21 districts and Thủ Đức City to compile a list of affected businesses and laid-off and informal sector workers who are eligible to receive the payments.