Con Cuong: Focus on fighting Covid-19 epidemic, stabilizing people's lives

Isolating and suppressing the epidemic

After more than a year and a half of fighting the epidemic, on August 21, the unexpected happened, Con Cuong district had its first case of infection.Covid-19in the community. That is patient LTN, in Cam Lam commune. Immediately, the district's Covid-19 prevention and control system urgently deployed solutions to quickly minimize the spread of the disease. Through investigation and tracing, Con Cuong district identified the means of transport, contacts and locations of the patient to notify, search for related people as well as implement blockade, spray disinfectants and sterilize. After that, 13 F1 cases were found, taken to centralized medical isolation and tested...

Comrade Nguyen Dinh Hung - Secretary of Con Cuong District Party Committee presented gifts to encourage Covid-19 prevention and control quarantine checkpoints. Photo: Ba Hau

Clearly identifying the high risk of infection, with the spirit of "one level higher, one step earlier" in epidemic prevention, on August 21, the Chairman of the People's Committee of Con Cuong district signed Decision No. 1226 to establish quarantine and social distancing areas to prevent and control the Covid-19 epidemic. Accordingly, localities implementing social distancing according to Directive 16 include: Cam Lam commune with 5 villages (Cong village, Lien Hong village, Cai village, Cam village and Bach Son village); Quyet Tien village, Chi Khe commune; Thanh Dao village, Thanh Nam village and 2-9 village, Bong Khe commune; Bung Xat village and Khe Choang village, Chau Khe commune... Time of application from 0:00 on August 22, 2021.

District People's CommitteeCon Cuongalso issued a plan to implement Decision 1226/QD-UBND. Mr. Hoang Sy Kien - Chairman of the District People's Committee stated: The plan is to mobilize the entire political system from the district to communes, towns and functional forces with the support of the entire population to strongly and drastically implement urgent measures to prevent and fight the Covid-19 epidemic; with the motto "4 on-site" to handle well the situations occurring throughout the area; to ensure security, order, social stability, minimize arising consequences; ensure the environment, socio-economic stability; at the same time support and create conditions for businesses and production establishments to maintain economic production activities; ensure the lives of families in difficult circumstances, and effectively resolve social security issues.

Con Cuong district has arranged traffic police cars to guide people returning from epidemic areas. Photo: Ba Hau

Specific tasks and solutions are set out and assigned to each individual, unit, and organization to implement: Strengthening propaganda work to raise awareness and action for people; markets and supermarkets strictly manage the number of shop owners and vehicle owners, proactively supporting price stabilization points of sale, providing essential necessities; temporarily suspending all ritual, religious, and belief activities; stopping all cultural, artistic, physical education, sports, and entertainment activities in public places; establishing checkpoints to prevent and control the Covid-19 epidemic... The solutions proposed by Con Cuong district are very urgent and drastic, ensuring the prevention and control of the Covid-19 epidemic in the event of an infection appearing in the area.

Ensuring social security and stability

The risk of Covid-19 entering Con Cuong district is always present, coming from people returning from epidemic areas to their hometowns and passing through the locality to Tuong Duong and Ky Son districts. In August 2021, it is estimated that every day there are 150-200 people from epidemic areas returning to and passing through Con Cuong district.

Localities in Con Cuong build makeshift quarantine areas for people returning from epidemic areas. Photo: Ba Hau

To support people and control the epidemic prevention and control work, Con Cuong district has established a Covid-19 epidemic prevention and control control team at the starting point of the district, assigning forces to work day and night 24/24h. The control team welcomes, provides medical support, food, water, gasoline and arranges traffic police cars to guide people from Tuong Duong and Ky Son districts through Con Cuong. At the same time, they receive information to welcome citizens of the district and guide them on epidemic prevention and medical quarantine regulations when returning to their localities.

Mr. Pham Trong Binh - Chairman of the Con Cuong District Fatherland Front Committee said: People returning home and people in the blockaded areas are all in difficult circumstances. The Fatherland Front and organizations and unions from the district to the communes have actively carried out volunteer activities to promptly support necessary necessities for households in the blockaded areas and households in difficult circumstances; established a consulting team to receive information from organizations and individuals reflecting on special circumstances that need help and support, thereby proactively advising the People's Committees of communes and districts to resolve. Many communes have well prepared facilities for concentrated quarantine areas. When the quarantine areas were full, localities such as Lang Khe, Don Phuc, and Luc Da proactively built field houses as quarantine places for people returning to their hometowns.

On August 20, the People's Committee of Nghe An province decided to implement social distancing according to Directive 15 for Con Cuong district and some other localities. Implementing social distancing in the whole district may only take place for a short time, but the fight against Covid-19 is determined to be persistent and long-lasting. Clearly identifying this, Con Cuong district has been implementing many solutions to both fight the epidemic and ensure social security, aiming for stability and development.

Authorities in Con Cuong check essential goods and stabilize the market. Photo: Ba Hau

Mr. Hoang Sy Kien - Chairman of the People's Committee of Con Cuong district said: The district directs departments, offices, communes and towns to promptly adjust the production plan for crops, livestock and aquatic products in accordance with the development of the epidemic. In the immediate future, there is a plan to focus on harvesting the summer-autumn crop quickly, ensuring disease prevention and control. Create favorable conditions for people and vehicles to transport plants, seeds, materials and agricultural products to circulate in the area when the conditions for disease prevention and control of the health sector are fully met. Communes and units survey the production and consumption situation of agricultural products in the area as a basis for developing a plan to support timely consumption of agricultural products and proactively connect businesses, organizations and individuals inside and outside the area to participate in supporting, purchasing, transporting and temporarily storing agricultural products for people in the area. For production enterprises in the area, it is required to seriously implement and fully deploy the plan to prevent and control the Covid-19 epidemic.

At this time, people, organizations and units in Con Cuong district are strictly implementing regulations on epidemic prevention and control; promoting the traditional spirit of mutual love and support to help people in difficult circumstances; continuing to take better care of policy beneficiaries in the context of the epidemic.