Four groups of solutions to protect anti-epidemic achievements and maintain the new normal state in Nghe An

On the morning of September 17, the Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control of Nghe An province held an online conference for the whole province on Covid-19 prevention and control.

Comrade Thai Thanh Quy - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the National Assembly Delegation, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council, Head of the Provincial Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control; Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, Deputy Head of the Standing Committee of the Steering Committee, Commander of the Provincial Covid-19 Prevention and Control Command Center chaired at the Provincial People's Committee bridge.

Comrade Nguyen Van Thong - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Deputy Head of the Provincial Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control chaired at the Provincial Party Committee bridge. The conference was held online to 21 districts, cities, towns and 441/460 communes, wards and towns in the whole province with a total of more than 7,800 delegates who are members of the Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control from the province to the grassroots level.

Panorama of the conference at the Nghe An Provincial People's Committee bridge. Photo: Thanh Duy

DETERMINED TO EXPAND GREEN AREAS

Speaking at the Conference, Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, Deputy Head of the Standing Committee of the Steering Committee, Commander of the Provincial Covid-19 Prevention and Control Command Center emphasized that in order to maintain and protect the achievements of epidemic prevention and control and move towards moving the entire province to implement Directive 19, expanding the entire province into a green zone, the most important issue now is to strictly control the source of infection inside and outside.

Regarding the internal source of infection, in areas with many F0 and F1 cases in the past, there may be undetected F0 cases. In these areas, localities must coordinate with the health sector to conduct screening tests to detect and separate F0 cases from the community.

At public places with high risk of infection such as markets, shopping malls, hospitals, schools, industrial parks with large concentrations of workers, localities must have priority solutions for screening tests, vaccinations, and appropriate measures to continue activities while ensuring safety in disease prevention and control.

Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, Deputy Head of the Standing Committee of the Steering Committee, Commander of the Provincial Covid-19 Prevention and Control Command Center chaired at the Provincial People's Committee bridge and spoke at the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

At the gateways to and from the province and the gateways to and from the localities, depending on the specific conditions, checkpoints can be established, with the view of creating conditions for freight vehicles to move, not causing congestion or difficulties for people but ensuring safety. When these vehicles enter the province, they must have a centralized cargo gathering point, not stopping or gathering goods arbitrarily.

Localities continue to base on the situation to organize risk zones according to levels, deploy epidemic prevention and control suitable for each locality. Places where positive cases appear must conduct tracing, zoning, and high-level social isolation to test and isolate F0 to gradually narrow down risk areas and control the epidemic soon. For orange and yellow zones, depending on the situation, appropriate measures will be taken. For green zones, there must be measures to both protect and maintain, and deploy appropriate socio-economic activities.

Overview of the bridge at Nghe An Provincial Party Committee. Photo: Pham Bang

Reiterating the Prime Minister's directive on epidemic prevention and control: "Each commune, ward and town is a fortress, each citizen is a soldier", Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung requested localities to review facilities to ensure epidemic prevention and control requirements, especially centralized quarantine facilities. Localities must continue to proactively review and develop epidemic prevention and control plans, and prepare resources to respond to new situations.

Regarding vaccination, the head of the Provincial People's Committee requested that localities must select priority areas and subjects for vaccination, focusing on densely populated and high-risk areas. When vaccines are allocated, there must be a plan to organize vaccination quickly, ensuring requirements and safety.

Sectors and localities continue to promote propaganda work combined with inspection and supervision to raise people's awareness and the responsibility of the forces performing epidemic prevention and control tasks. This work in the coming time must achieve the goal of making people clearly aware of the danger level of the Covid-19 epidemic with many new variants. Sectors at all levels must organize surprise inspections to strictly handle and promptly correct violations and shortcomings, and effectively implement epidemic prevention and control measures.

Along with implementing epidemic prevention and control measures in localities, sectors and localities must pay attention to implementing socio-economic recovery measures, depending on the conditions of each locality and the level of epidemic risk in each locality.

For green zones, focus on safe production, business and service activities; associated with measures in the new situation. At factories and enterprises, production activities are spaced out and can be divided into groups. Industries must coordinate with localities to guide production facilities and enterprises to organize safe production; in case of infection, there must be measures to isolate and quarantine, not to the point of having to stop production.

OUR RESPECTFUL THANKS TO THE PEOPLE

After listening to the report of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control and 15 opinions of delegates attending the conference at the bridge points, Provincial Party Secretary Thai Thanh Quy concluded the meeting.

Emphasizing that this conference is of great importance, demonstrating a very serious attitude as well as a high viewpoint and determination to prepare for the new normal state, the Head of the Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control noted many key contents on epidemic prevention and control work in the province.

Since June 13, Nghe An has had 1,805 cases, and since August 14, the province has had 1,334 cases. This is the most intense and arduous anti-epidemic campaign since the outbreak of the epidemic. According to the Provincial Party Secretary, the entire province has taken drastic measures to control the epidemic. Up to now, Nghe An has basically contained and controlled the epidemic, many localities have returned to a new normal state and the risk areas have narrowed.

To achieve the above results, according to the Provincial Party Secretary, there are many factors, of which two are very important. First of all, the management work must be smooth, decisive and flexible, with many strong solutions, higher measures, and maximum mobilization of forces, means and resources to control the epidemic. Up to this point, it can be seen that those decisions are accurate, correct and effective. The second factor, no less important, is that the people of the whole province support, agree and participate in fighting the epidemic.

On behalf of the Provincial Party Standing Committee and the Provincial Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control, the Provincial Party Secretary highly appreciated, acknowledged and commended the efforts of the entire political system, especially the frontline forces participating in the fight against the epidemic in the recent period.

Delegates at the conference points. Photo: Thanh Duy

Through the conference, on behalf of the provincial leaders, the head of the Provincial Party Committee expressed his sincere thanks to the Provincial People for always standing side by side with the political system, Party committees, authorities, the Fatherland Front and organizations in unanimity, consensus, support and responsibility in implementing the work of epidemic prevention and control in the recent past.

In front of more than 7,800 leaders and members of the Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control at 3 levels in the province, besides acknowledging the achieved results, Provincial Party Secretary Thai Thanh Quy also frankly pointed out that, although the epidemic had been contained and suppressed, the province had to focus all its efforts; in addition to funding, it also mobilized materials and human resources to prevent and control the epidemic, such as: mobilizing more than 12,700 medical staff, more than 11,900 police and army officers and soldiers, calling on more than 6,000 volunteers, 172,000 grassroots cadres of communes, wards, towns, blocks, hamlets, villages and hamlets to directly participate in suppressing the epidemic;... The whole province had to quarantine 111 areas, socially distance 221 communes, and socially isolate 58 communes; Economic activities were suspended, other social activities had to be temporarily suspended, and even key commune officials had to be disciplined for being subjective and negligent in epidemic prevention and control work.

This morning, September 17, Nghe An recorded 1 new case of Covid-19 infection.

(Baonghean.vn) - The new Covid-19 infection is an F1 case, previously quarantined, living in Boi Son commune, Do Luong district.

Asking the question: "Why is the epidemic spreading like that?" The Provincial Party Secretary pointed out that the basic reason is due to subjectivity, negligence, and lack of vigilance after doing a good job of suppressing the epidemic from June 13 to July 10 in Vinh city. Along with that is the hasty mentality of returning to a new normal state in the above stage but lacking preparation and control of the area, while many localities across the country are experiencing an epidemic; the vaccination rate in the province is still very low.

FOUR GROUPS OF FUNDAMENTAL SOLUTIONS

Pointing out the achievements as well as the valuable lessons above, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Thai Thanh Quy - Head of the Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control of Nghe An province emphasized 4 groups of solutions to protect the achievements of the epidemic prevention and control, maintain a stable and long-term new normal state; thereby restoring production and socio-economic development in the context of the epidemic nationwide and low vaccination rate.

First of all, the Provincial Party Secretary repeatedly emphasized the need to avoid negligence, lack of vigilance and hasty subjectivity. In order to avoid falling into the above two situations, the whole province must strictly implement the Prime Minister's direction to build solid "fortresses"; epidemic prevention must be from afar, early, and from the grassroots. But in order for each village, each hamlet, each commune, each agency and enterprise to be a "fortress", there must be a plan and scenario in accordance with the direction of the Central Government, the province, the district and the commune.

Along with that, any content that meets the new conditions to operate under strict monitoring conditions; must control the area, population movement, therefore, the Community Covid Team, Community Monitoring Team need to be active in this period; encourage reward and punishment mechanisms in epidemic prevention and control. On the other hand, the Provincial Covid - 19 Prevention and Control Command Center studies plans to guide random testing in green zones; ensure vaccination on schedule, safety, and to the right subjects.

Comrade Thai Thanh Quy - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the National Assembly Delegation, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council, Head of the Provincial Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control delivered a concluding speech at the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

The second content that the Head of the Provincial Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control requested to be implemented is to continue to maintain the spirit of disease prevention and control at a high and very strict level; not to "relax" in the spirit of disease prevention and control. The leaders of each locality and unit must be responsible for the spread of the disease in the area or the disease from outside entering the green zone; therefore, the Provincial Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control needs to research and advise in the direction of quantifying it as specifically as possible, to have a mechanism to clearly stipulate the level of handling if the disease cannot be controlled.

Along with that, the organization signed a commitment to attach the responsibility of all people to epidemic prevention and control in the direction of making the commitment as specific as possible. Cadres, civil servants, public employees, and workers in production and business establishments need to set an example to create a widespread political movement and raise awareness and responsibility of each citizen towards themselves, their families, and the community.

The Provincial Party Secretary also requested to continue assigning responsibility for directing, urging, inspecting, and supervising epidemic prevention and control work to members of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, the Provincial Party Executive Committee, and members of the Provincial Steering Committee for Epidemic Prevention and Control for agencies, units, and localities assigned to be in charge. Similarly, district and commune-level units need to assign responsibility to members of the Standing Committee, members of the Party Executive Committee, and members of the Steering Committee for Epidemic Prevention and Control at their level.

On the other hand, it is necessary to strengthen inspection and supervision at the grassroots level with the motto: compact inspection components, wide inspection area, diverse inspection subjects; resolutely handle violations of epidemic prevention and control regulations; even in the future, if the epidemic continues to penetrate due to subjective factors, it is possible to replace officials, not just stop at the disciplinary level as in the past.

Covid-19 testing for people. Photo: PV

The third group of solutions in the new normal state, according to the Provincial Party Secretary, is of utmost importance and decisive in the awareness and responsibility of the people; the participation of the people in disease prevention and control. Therefore, along with strict laws, it is necessary to inform, propagate, educate, mobilize, and guide people to prevent and control diseases in a timely manner with the motto of being correct, sufficient, easy to understand, easy to remember, easy to do, associated with commendation, rewards, and punishments; fight against false arguments, bad and toxic information about disease prevention and control work in the area. The goal is that all people agree, support, and participate responsibly in disease prevention and control work; grasp basic skills to prevent and control diseases for themselves, their families, and the community. Everyone is one, no one is outside the disease prevention and control cycle in the new period.

Finally, Provincial Party Secretary Thai Thanh Quy requested to continue reviewing to firmly consolidate the 4 on-site. In particular, it is necessary to mobilize and develop a "rotation" plan to regenerate labor for frontline forces; increase savings to have resources for long-term epidemic prevention and control; proactively ensure people's security and social security, especially for the poor, the elderly, women, children, and vulnerable groups in society; ensure security, order and social safety, in which absolutely do not let subjects take advantage of epidemic prevention and control work to profit or violate the law.

Along with epidemic prevention and control work, depending on the context and situation, localities need to consider factors to ensure epidemic prevention in a reasonable and scientific manner based on high and strict principles to encourage and motivate the recovery of production, business activities and economic development.