Do not be subjective, do not let hot spots break out in Covid-19 prevention, drug prevention and food safety

On the morning of December 22, the Government held a national online conference to deploy the implementation of the Law on Drug Prevention and Control; Covid-19 epidemic 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 leaders of the Ministries of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs, Health; leaders of 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 ideas on the conference's key contents, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam acknowledged the efforts of ministries, sectors, and localities in recent times in preventing drug crimes, ensuring food hygiene and safety, and 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 role and coordination between forces, levels, sectors and localities. In addition, it is necessary to smoothly combine emulation movements, mass movements and propaganda work. Special attention should be paid to Covid-19 prevention and control in performing tasks.

Regarding food hygiene and safety, the country has generally ensured basic 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 intensified.

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 overload in control and treatment. Ministries, branches, forces and localities need to strengthen coordination in performing tasks to ensure 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 years old, 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, order and procedures for determining drug addiction status; deployed contents related to Circular No. 18/2021/TT-BYT stipulating diagnostic standards and professional procedures to determine drug addiction status; Decree detailing a number of articles of the Law on Drug Prevention and Control, Law on handling administrative violations on drug addiction treatment and post-treatment management.

Next, the conference also disseminated contents on Covid-19 prevention and control and food hygiene and safety during Tet; thoroughly grasped a number of Covid-19 prevention and control tasks at the grassroots level; and work to ensure food hygiene and safety during the Lunar New Year.