Do not be subjective, do not let hot spots break out in the prevention of Covid-19, drugs and food safety and hygiene

On the morning of December 22, the Government held a national online conference to implement the Law on Drug Prevention and Control; Covid-19 prevention and control, and food hygiene and safety.

Comrade Vu Duc Dam - Member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Prime Minister, Chairman of the National Committee for AIDS, Drug and Prostitution Prevention and Control, chaired the Conference. Attending at the Government bridge were representatives of the leaders of the Ministries of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs, Health; leaders of the People's Committees of provinces and cities.

Comrade Bui Dinh Long - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee chaired at the Nghe An Provincial People's Committee bridge point.

ComradeBui Dinh Long - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee chaired at the Nghe An Provincial People's Committee bridge point. Photo: Hoai Thu

After listening to local representatives discuss and contribute opinions on the conference's key contents, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam acknowledged the efforts of ministries, departments, sectors and localities in recent times in preventing drug crimes, ensuring food hygiene and safety as well as preventing the Covid-19 epidemic nationwide.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam emphasized that despite many achievements, the risks are still very high, so it is necessary to be more drastic in preventing and combating drug crimes at both the "supply and demand" and in drug rehabilitation work. For this work, not only the police force, health care, and labor sector but also the entire political system needs to participate, strongly promoting the key and core role and coordination between forces, sectors and localities. In addition, it is necessary to smoothly combine emulation movements, mass movements and propaganda work. Special attention should be paid to the prevention and control of Covid-19 in performing tasks.

Regarding food safety, the country has basically complied with international regulations. However, the Deputy Prime Minister also noted that localities, ministries and branches need to speed up the development and implementation of safety maps in agricultural production and pay attention to developing OCOP products. The mechanism of criticism and dialogue needs to be strengthened; the advertising of functional foods needs to be tightly managed. Food safety inspection during the traditional Tet holiday must be given special attention and increased efforts must be made.

Regarding the prevention of the Covid-19 epidemic, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam emphasized that the epidemic still has the risk of creating a new wave of infection that is 3-7 times faster than the old strain, so it is necessary to speed up the vaccination rate for people to minimize the risk of spreading and death. Forces must always be ready, not be subjective, not let hot spots break out and be overloaded in control and treatment. Ministries, branches, forces and localities need to strengthen coordination in performing tasks to ensure that people have a happy, healthy and safe Tet in the new situation.

Regarding the situation of Covid-19 epidemic prevention tasks, a representative of the Ministry of Health reported at the conference on the rapid spread of the omicron variant in countries.

Regarding the speed of Covid-19 vaccination, the whole country has vaccinated 130.7 million doses, reaching over 81% of people over 18 years old with 2 doses. Regarding vaccination for people aged 12-18, it has reached 29.6 million doses, it is expected that by the end of January 2022, 100% of this age group will be vaccinated.

Nghe An police force launched a crackdown on crime. Photo: Binh Minh

Previously, the Conference disseminated and thoroughly grasped the main contents of the Law on Drug Prevention and Control and Decree No. 105/2021/ND-CP detailing and guiding the implementation of a number of articles of the Law on Drug Prevention and Control; Decree No. 109/2021/ND-CP stipulating medical facilities qualified to determine drug addiction status and records, procedures for determining drug addiction status; implementing contents related to Circular No. 18/2021/TT-BYT stipulating diagnostic standards and professional procedures for determining drug addiction status; Decree detailing a number of articles of the Law on Drug Prevention and Control, Law on handling administrative violations regarding drug addiction treatment and post-treatment management.

The conference also disseminated information on Covid-19 prevention and control and food safety during Tet; thoroughly grasped some Covid-19 prevention and control tasks at the grassroots level; and ensured food safety during Tet.