speaks at the permanent Cabinet meeting. (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked for extra
efforts to quickly stamp out before the
festival, which falls in mid-February.
The PM made the request at a permanent Cabinet meeting on the situation of
zoning off and dealing with newly-detected infections on January 29, just one
day after an urgent meeting with the National Steering Committee on COVID-19 Prevention
and Control on the sidelines of the ongoing 13th National Party Congress.
He said that several leaders, who are delegates to the
congress in Hanoi, returned to their localities to direct, or chaired online
meetings with their localities on disease prevention and control work.
The Health Ministry has also sent many experienced staff to
support the affected localities in the fight against the pandemic.
The PM stressed that the new variant of SARS-CoV-2 is
spreading very quickly, that needs to take more rapid actions and extensive
testing, and quickly trace for anyone with possible contacts with the confirmed
patients.
Localities with community-transmitted infections should
practice social distancing at high-risk areas.
The Prime Minister also urged the Health Ministry to submit
a plan on buying vaccines to try serving people within the first
quarter of 2021./.
Source: VietnamPlus
