Provincial Border Guard awarded certificates of merit to 1 collective and 2 individuals Nghe An Newspaper

The Border Guard of Nghe An province manages and protects 468,281 km of border, adjacent to 3 provinces of Laos: Hua Phan, Xieng Khouang, Bo Ly Kham Xay and 82 km of coastline. The management area includes 61 communes and wards in 11 border and coastal districts and towns; the population is over 100,000 people with 7 ethnic groups living together. The land border has 1 international border gate, 1 main border gate, 3 secondary border gates, 4 openings and many border crossing points, causing many difficulties in controlling immigrants.

Reporters of Nghe An Newspaper and officers and soldiers of the Border Guard force on duty at the Covid-19 prevention checkpoint. Photo: Thanh Cuong

To improve the effectiveness of epidemic prevention and control, the Provincial Border Guard Command established a shortened forward command post in Muong Xen town, Ky Son district; 67 fixed and mobile checkpoints with 545 officers and soldiers to prevent and control the epidemic at border crossing points; prepared a centralized quarantine point to receive Vietnamese citizens returning from Laos at Mobile Company 1, Ky Son district at the request of the Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control of Nghe An province; sent 50 officers and soldiers to perform tasks at quarantine areas at the request of the locality.

Accompanying the provincial Border Guard force, Nghe An Newspaper has sent many groups of reporters to the border area, directly participating at the checkpoints blocking trails and openings to record the work of preventing the Covid-19 epidemic at the border as well as sharing the difficulties of the provincial Border Guard force.

News and articles promoting the epidemic prevention and control activities of the Border Guard force in the border areas published in Nghe An Newspaper such as: "Nghe An border area braces itself to fight the Covid-19 epidemic", "Detecting and quarantining 7 illegal immigrants hiding from Covid-19 through trails in Nghe An", "Nghe An sets up a checkpoint on Chu River to promptly detect illegal immigrants", "Recording on the front line of Covid-19 prevention and control", "Soldiers driving on the front line of epidemic prevention and control in Nghe An"... have had a wide spread, contributing to raising awareness of people in the border areas in particular, as well as people across the country in general..., contributing to the success of Covid-19 prevention and control work in Nghe An as well as the whole country.

In addition, in order to encourage and share the difficulties of the provincial Border Guard force on the epidemic prevention front, Nghe An Newspaper reporters proactively connected and called on philanthropists and religious organizations to donate and support essential supplies for officers and soldiers on duty on the front line.

Colonel Le Nhu Cuong - Party Secretary, Political Commissar of Nghe An Border Guard awarded certificates of merit to 1 collective and 2 individuals with achievements in propaganda work on Nghe An Provincial Border Guard organizing the implementation of tasks of preventing and fighting the Covid-19 epidemic. Photo: Thu Huong

In recognition of Nghe An Newspaper's contributions to the propaganda work on the Nghe An Provincial Border Guard's implementation of Covid-19 prevention and control tasks, the Provincial Border Guard Command awarded Certificates of Merit to the Social and Cultural Department and two reporters of Nghe An Newspaper.