Nghe An Youth with many practical activities to prevent Covid-19

Many practical activities

For the past few days, Mr. Xong Ba Denh - Secretary of the Youth Union of Na Ngoi commune (Ky Son district) has been busy organizing communication activities to prevent the Covid-19 epidemic. Mr. Denh said that Na Ngoi is one of the communes with a large number of workers from China returning to the locality during Tet, with 63 people.

Tang Phan village, Na Ngoi commune (Ky Son). Photo: Ho Phuong

Faced with the complicated developments of the epidemic situation, the Na Ngoi Commune Youth Union has coordinated with the Border Guard Station Youth Union, the 10th Youth Volunteer Corps, the 4th National Defense Economic Group and the local authorities to establish propaganda teams, providing knowledge to help prevent the epidemic to people in 19 villages; conducting disinfection spraying and sterilization at schools, offices, and crowded places. In addition, the Commune Youth Union has been actively implementing epidemic communication to union members and youth in affiliated youth unions.

To prevent the disease from spreading, the groups also concentrated on zoning off the Tang Phan and Huoi Thum villages - where many households have children returning from working abroad. In addition to distributing free masks and advising people to eat cooked food, drink boiled water, use soap and disinfectants properly, practice good hygiene, and limit going to crowded places... the youth of Na Ngoi commune also regularly coordinate with the commune health station, departments, and organizations to strengthen monitoring, early detection of suspected cases, control and prevent the spread of the disease; and encourage people to absolutely not complete documents to continue going to China while the epidemic is happening.

“The health of those who have returned from working in China to their families for Tet in Na Ngoi commune is regularly monitored and so far there have been no cases showing signs of the disease. However, to proactively control and promptly detect the disease, the youth of Na Ngoi in particular and Na Ngoi commune in general will continue to educate people on how to prevent the disease, organize the spraying of disinfectants, clean the environment, and limit the risk of disease outbreaks caused by Covid-19.”

Mr. Xong Ba Denh - Secretary of the Youth Union of Na Ngoi commune (Ky Son district)

Youth Union members of Quynh Luu district launched propaganda on epidemic prevention and control and distributed free masks to people. Photo: Phuong Thuy

In Quynh Luu district, along with launching propaganda campaigns to raise people's awareness of the epidemic situation and prevention measures through websites and loudspeakers, Youth Union organizations have distributed 10,000 free masks and 5,000 leaflets to inform people about the risks and consequences of the Covid-19 epidemic. Quynh Luu Youth Union also organized volunteer activities to clean up rural and urban environments, ensure the maintenance of open roads for rural youth self-management and collect waste to prevent disease pathogens from entering residential areas.

The Provincial Police Youth Union has directed its branches to distribute free masks and arrange hand-washing areas for citizens when they come to contact work, such as the one-stop police department of each unit. In addition, the Police Youth Union of each unit has established emergency volunteer teams to promptly respond to epidemic-related incidents.

The Youth Union of Nghe An Provincial Police distributed free masks to people at the one-stop shop. Photo: Phuong Thuy

Up to this point, through mobilization, donations and calling for socialized resources, Nghe An Police Youth Union has distributed over 20,000 medical masks and bottles of hand sanitizer to people; at the same time, calling on people to select news about the Covid-19 epidemic from official websites of the Government and the Ministry of Health to have the most accurate and timely updates; stay calm, not be too panicked or subjective about the epidemic...

Join hands with the community

Along with the propaganda work to join hands in fighting the Covid-19 epidemic, in the context of many types of hand sanitizers on the market increasing in price, being difficult to buy, and having scarce raw materials and packaging, a group of staff, lecturers and students from the Department of Chemistry Education (Institute of Natural Education) and the Department of Food Technology (Institute of Biochemical Technology - Environment) of Vinh University have produced antibacterial hand sanitizer that can prevent infection, prevent infectious diseases, and is safe for the health of users, and distributed more than 2,000 bottles for free to staff, lecturers, students and people in need.

“Living in a densely populated area, I am always concerned about protecting my family’s health in the face of the current epidemic situation, so I have gone to many stores to buy masks and hand sanitizer for the whole family, but these items are scarce, and the prices are also very high. Now that the youth union members have given them for free and given me enthusiastic instructions on how to prevent the epidemic, I feel much happier and more secure.”

Mr. Nguyen Van Hung - resident of Hung Dung ward (Vinh city)

Youth of Vinh University produce hand sanitizer to distribute for free to staff, lecturers, students and people. Photo: Phuong Thuy

At Vinh City Youth Union, after hearing the news that agricultural products were difficult to sell due to the impact of the Covid-19 epidemic, they coordinated with the Youth Union of Quang Ngai province and became the focal point for coordinating with many clubs, agencies, and units to purchase and support farmers to sell dozens of tons of watermelon; donated more than 1,000 masks to people, including 500 masks to Tuong Duong District Youth Union - a mountainous unit with many difficulties to distribute for free to people; hung 500 posters to propagate epidemic prevention and control in crowded places throughout the city...

Faced with the complicated developments of the acute respiratory disease caused by the new strain of SARS-CoV-2 virus, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Youth Union Pham Van Toan said that the Provincial Youth Union Standing Committee has developed a plan to direct and guide Youth Union chapters at all levels to synchronously implement solutions, focusing on coordinating with socio-political organizations to deploy instructions and widely disseminate information to all classes of people to know and grasp the epidemic situation and measures to prevent and control the epidemic in the community.

At the same time, the Provincial Youth Union has increased propaganda through vivid visual forms such as launching an online quiz contest "Learning about and preventing acute respiratory infections caused by the new strain of Corona" on the Nghe An Provincial Youth Union Facebook page. Accordingly, contestants will answer sets of questions given by the organizers. This is a way to propagate and raise awareness and understanding of the epidemic and how to prevent it for the community. The contest was launched from February 11 to February 15, 2020, attracting thousands of youth union members to participate.

Nghe An Youth Union propagates Covid-19 prevention and control to people and children. Photo: Phuong Thuy

The Provincial Youth Union also recommends that youth union members and people limit going to crowded places; do not share information of unknown origin, causing confusion and hesitation among the people... In the coming time, the Provincial Youth Union Standing Committee, Youth Union - Association - Pioneer chapters at all levels in the province will continue to monitor, coordinate with relevant units to strengthen and promote information and propaganda work on measures to prevent the Covid-19 epidemic to all classes of people to raise awareness and proactively implement measures to prevent infection for themselves, their families and the community.

Up to now, Youth Union - Association - Pioneer organizations across the province have directly called on socialized resources to distribute more than 78,000 free masks, more than 21,000 bottles of hand sanitizer to more than 26,000 people; joining hands to "rescue" dozens of tons of watermelons...