Strengthening the Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control in Nghe An province

Accordingly, comrade Thai Thanh Quy - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council is the Head of the Committee.

Comrade Nguyen Van Thong - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee as Deputy Head of the Committee. Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee as Deputy Head of the Standing Committee. In addition, the Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control of Nghe An province also has 32 other members.

Provincial Party Secretary Thai Thanh Quy inspects Covid-19 prevention and control work in Dien Chau district. Photo: Thanh Duy

The Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control of Nghe An province is responsible for directing Party committees at all levels, Party organizations, authorities, socio-political organizations and agencies and units in the province to comprehensively implement Covid-19 prevention and control work to ensure focus, unity, consistency, decisiveness, drasticness and effectiveness.

At the same time, direct the Covid-19 Prevention and Control Command Center and competent authorities of the province to decide on applying epidemic prevention and control measures according to the policies of the Central Government, the Government, the Prime Minister, and the National Steering Committee, in accordance with the actual situation in the locality.

The consolidation of the Provincial Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control was carried out under the general direction of key Party and State leaders on Covid-19 prevention and control nationwide. Accordingly, on August 24, key leaders met to listen to the Government Party Committee report on the epidemic situation and the implementation of urgent measures to prevent and control Covid-19 in Ho Chi Minh City and the southern provinces.

Comrade Nguyen Phu Trong - General Secretary chaired, attended by comrades: Nguyen Xuan Phuc - President; Pham Minh Chinh - Prime Minister; Vuong Dinh Hue - Chairman of the National Assembly; Vo Van Thuong - Standing member of the Secretariat and representatives of departments, ministries and branches.

After listening to the opinions of the agencies, the comrades attending the meeting, and the key leaders discussing, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong gave a concluding speech on many important contents, including agreeing to assign the Prime Minister to be the Head of the National Steering Committee for Epidemic Prevention and Control; directly directing and operating centrally and uniformly from the Central to the local level, meeting the requirements of mobilizing all resources and measures as quickly and effectively as possible to promptly prevent and control the epidemic nationwide.Provincial and municipal Party Secretaries directly direct epidemic prevention and control work.

Previously, on August 23, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh also signed and issued Official Dispatch No. 1102/CD-TTg on strengthening measures to prevent and control the Covid-19 epidemic nationwide.

On the same day, Nghe An Provincial Party Committee issued Official Dispatch No. 580-CV/TU to the Standing Committees of District, City, Town Party Committees, and affiliated Party Committees to convey the opinion of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee to propose the consolidation of the Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control in localities and units, with the Party Secretary as the head of the Committee, to ensure focused, unified, consistent, decisive, resolute, effective leadership and direction, and to be responsible for the results of epidemic prevention and control work in the area.

Direct the establishment of a command center for epidemic prevention and control at all levels headed by the Chairman of the People's Committee (head of the agency); clearly define functions, tasks, powers, and assign 24/7 on-duty personnel to promptly receive, handle, and report within their authority all issues related to epidemic prevention and control in the area.

The Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee also requested the Standing Committees of district, city, town Party Committees and affiliated Party Committees to continue to actively, resolutely, synchronously and effectively implement the directions of the Politburo, the Secretariat of the Central Party Committee, the National Assembly, the Government, the Prime Minister, the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, the Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control at the provincial level and of the units on epidemic prevention and control in the area.