The Department of Information and Communications is the focal point for information on epidemic prevention According to Ms. Le Ngoc Han, information and propaganda have been determined by the province to play a very important role in the prevention of the Covid-19 epidemic. Therefore, communication has been included in the message of Covid-19 prevention and control in Quang Ninh along with 5K, vaccines and technology. When implementing, there are some differences that are the entire information and propaganda work is assigned to the Department of Information and Communications for information to be more unified and proactive. Specifically, the Department of Information and Communications is the focal agency to broadcast messages and developments in epidemic prevention and control as well as directing and operating activities in the area. “This is also a way to reduce the load on the health workers who are on the front lines so they can focus on their professional work, which is epidemic prevention and control,” said Ms. Le Ngoc Han. During epidemics, the Department of Information and Communications is the focal point to provide all information on epidemic prevention to the press, media as well as the basic information systems, including information related to the tracing work. . At times with special factors, the Department of Information and Communications produces newsletters or informational content in order to provide timely and fastest information to the press and the grassroots information system. Promoting the strengths of IT in anti-epidemic propaganda The information is continuously updated at the e-Government of Quang Ninh province on the Zalo platform (Photo: Duy Vu) Quang Ninh is one of the affected localities in the 3rd outbreak when Van Don airport and Dong Trieu town appeared new cases. At a time when the epidemic was complicated, the province’s information and propaganda work was carried out continuously in many forms and showed positive effects. Ms. Le Ngoc Han shared: “Instead of only using traditional methods in print press, radio, television, and electronic press, today, communication is used to the fullest extent. In particular, promoting the strengths of IT and telecommunications infrastructures. Specifically, Quang Ninh uses a public service portal to bring information about Covid-19 prevention to people and businesses. The public service portal is one of the methods of communication with people and businesses, which has a large amount of traffic every day, so information is quickly and widely distributed. Especially when social distancing, the more users need to access the public service portal. Quang Ninh also uses the basic infrastructure of the provincial e-government (invested since 2014) to access the entire system of civil servants and public employees from the province to the commune level. In addition, all administrative documents of the province are sent via the official email system to civil servants and public employees. Currently, the province is testing a smart application in the IoT system, which is identified as an effective communication channel. In addition, the Department of Information and Communications also uses the public Wi-Fi system to deliver messages and content that need to be transmitted immediately to the people about epidemic prevention and control. “Another system that we consider very effective is basic information,” said the director of the Quang Ninh Department of Information and Communications. Not only providing the written content as directed, at peak periods such as the 3rd outbreak, every day the Department of Information and Communications prepares a newsletter to give to the basic information system to communicate key and fastest content to the people. “So we communicate proactively, purposefully and communicate focused content throughout the province,” said Ms. Le Ngoc Han. Using and promoting the effectiveness of social networks is a form deployed by the province to bring information to the people quickly. In Quang Ninh, most departments and branches have a Fanpage; All information on epidemic prevention and control is focused on these channels or Zalo platform on the provincial e-Government page for daily news updates.

Inside the restaurant, every 4-5 am, Mr. Hien and his companion, Ms. Nguyen Thi Yen Anh (who lives in Go Vap district) and a few associates are busy preparing “restaurant-standard” meals to send. donated to the anti-epidemic forces of the district. Mr. Hien confided that the restaurant had just opened for about a month, when the COVID-19 epidemic developed complicatedly, Go Vap district alone had to implement social distancing according to Directive 16. He had to give most of his staff a break. No longer accepting visitors, difficult situation surrounds. Mr. Pham Minh Hien (right cover) takes care of the rice portions sent to the anti-epidemic force. However, during the difficult time that seemed to be deadlocked, Yen Anh – his companion offered to support him with a part of the funding, contributing money to help him keep the restaurant fire, instead of selling as before. will cook rice to send to anti-epidemic forces, instead of words of encouragement for them to focus on their work. The idea just came up, everyone started working right away. From May 29 until now, every day, Mr. Hien and his friends cook more than 100 servings of rice with gratitude. Initially, the money for cooking rice was paid by Mr. Hien and Ms. Yen Anh. Many of his business partners see that, they support rice, meat and fish… Many friends also started sending money to support. “They want to come with me. They told me to go for a long distance, not every day, sometimes 16 to 21 days, with a daily budget of more than 3 million, one person will not be able to bear it. So the friends decided to accompany and contribute a little heart to him to maintain this meaningful work “- Mr. Hien said. The daily meal prepared by Mr. Hien and his friends is as delicious as the restaurant meals. Each set of rice has stir-fried dishes, savory dishes, soups, and desserts. Salty dishes always change from fish to meat to chicken, eggs, and soup are also changed every day so that the eater does not get bored. Because more than 100 meals are prepared every day, all dishes are planned by Mr. Hien in advance to order ingredients or so that sponsors can support the ingredients through that plan. Just like that, every morning from 4 to 5, everyone started working. Working until about 10:30, the policemen in the district will drive to the restaurant to receive and transfer to the anti-epidemic force in Go Vap. When asked about the difficult situation of the epidemic, it is impossible to do business as before, why did he and his friends choose this volunteer work, Mr. Hien just smiled and said: “Hien thinks that everyone is having a hard time now, but there is a common difficulty, not his own, if I have the strength, I try to help everyone a little, each person contributes a little effort, agrees with him. If you are on the front line against the epidemic, the epidemic will pass faster, and from then on, we hope to return to trading soon.” Along with Mr. Hien for the past year, Mr. Nguyen Cong Vinh said that every day when moving through the epidemic prevention checkpoint, the brothers and sisters at the checkpoint were too hard, had to endure the sun and rain, while the strength of the family. The restaurant is cooking, so everyone wants to contribute the most practical things to the brothers and sisters through rice portions. “Brothers and sisters, please be confident, behind you, we will always support you” – Mr. Vinh messaged. Hien’s group of friends each have a job, everyone is busy preparing 120 meals to send to the anti-epidemic force. Today, the main course of the meal is fried eggs, fried vegetables, soup and indispensable fruit dessert. The meals are carefully cared for according to “restaurant” standards. Starting early in the morning until about 9 o’clock, everyone divides the food into each tray. The daily cost to cook more than 100 meals is about 3 million VND. Each bag contains 5 servings, the staff of the restaurant check that each serving has enough chopsticks, spoons or fruit for dessert. “Why does this portion of rice have so few eggs, why is everyone full?” – Hien said to the group. After a while, fragrant steamed eggs are added immediately. Gratitude portions to encourage the Go Vap anti-epidemic force. At about 10 o’clock, the police car of Go Vap district ran to the restaurant to receive the rice portions, then divided among the gatekeepers at the entrance to the district. Mr. Hien said he will maintain this job with friends until the end of social distance, when the epidemic situation subsides, the brothers and sisters will no longer be on duty to work as stressful as now.

These are individuals participating in groups, groups and units, including: Special Working Group of the Ministry of Health; working groups to support Covid-19 epidemic prevention and control from universities: Hanoi Medicine, Public Health, Hai Duong Medical Technology; Pasteur Institute Nha Trang, National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Bach Mai Hospital, Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Thai Nguyen Central Hospital. Notably, there are more than 300 students who are the pioneers involved in sampling, tracing and testing. During the Covid-19 epidemic that broke out in our country from the end of April 2021, many units, provinces and cities have sent officials, experts, nurses, doctors, technicians and medical staff.. support epidemic prevention and control in hot spots, including Bac Ninh and Bac Giang. The commendation of the Ministry of Health is a timely recognition of contributions, in order to encourage morale, arouse the enthusiasm of the medical force on the front lines, improve determination, action, efforts, and strength. Moreover, together with the whole country to soon fight the epidemic. Step 1: Visit https://www.bluezone.gov.vn or download directly at App Store or CH Play. Step 2: Once downloaded, the application will ask for permission to use Bluetooth to record contact with other Bluezone installed users. If Bluetooth is not open, drag the status bar and turn on Bluetooth; or go to Settings, select Bluetooth and turn it on. Step 3: Once the installation is done, click Scan Around. If someone near you less than 2m has used Bluezone, the application will automatically identify these users and put them in the contact list.

Hanoi is the locality with the most people downloading the anti-epidemic application Bluezone Out of 33 million people using Bluezone, more than 20.58 million people have entered their phone number in the information on the application. The number of people providing phone numbers to the authorities has increased by nearly 1 million people compared to April 28, 2021. The two localities leading the country in the number of people downloading the Bluezone application are Hanoi (3.1 million people) and Ho Chi Minh City (2.83 million people). In the opposite direction, provinces like Dien Bien (70,500 people), Tuyen Quang (121,000 people), Yen Bai (130,000 people), … are the localities with the lowest number of people downloading Bluezone. Considering the percentage of population, Da Nang (43.7%), Hai Duong (40%), Hanoi (38.6%), Quang Ninh (37%), Bac Ninh (34%) are localities has the most number of Bluezoners. However, there is a fact that the number of people who download and actually use the Bluezone application is still a significant difference. In Hanoi, where the most people download Bluezone, the number of Bluezone accounts actually active is only 1.23 million, accounting for 40% of the total number of accounts. Meanwhile, in Ho Chi Minh City, the number of real Bluezone users (turn on Bluetooth for Bluezone to work) is about 1.1 million people, accounting for 38% of the total number of accounts. The same thing happened in Da Nang (40%), Hai Duong (38%), Quang Ninh (38%), Bac Ninh (39%), Hai Phong (38%), Thai Nguyen (38%) when not Which province or city has the number of people actually using Bluezone exceeding 50% of the population. Currently, Hanoi, Bac Ninh, Bac Giang, Vinh Phuc, Da Nang,… all have documents to encourage people to apply technological solutions such as electronic medical declaration and install Bluezone application to prevent , anti-epidemic. The Bluezone application is currently one of the five recommended technology solutions to prevent the spread of Covid-19. This is a low energy Bluetooth technology application solution. Smartphones with Bluezone installed can communicate with each other, recording close contact. The exposure history data will only be saved on the user’s mobile device. When there is a new infection and that person’s mobile phone has Bluezone installed, the contact history will be used to alert those who also have Bluezone installed and have been in close contact with the case. Bluezone can also help alert F2 people (close contact with F1). Bluezone warns if the user has been in close contact with someone infected with Covid-19, helping to reduce the risk of spreading in the community, helping people return to normal life.

The dispatch stated that, in the face of complicated developments in the world Covid-19, implementing the Prime Minister’s directing opinion on the realization of the dual goal of both economic development and effective anti-epidemic. In order to improve effectiveness in the prevention of epidemics and to deploy vaccination against Covid-19 in the coming time, from March 24-27, 2021, the National Steering Committee organized an inspection team to the provinces / TP.

Based on the examination results, the Ministry of Health (the standing agency of the National Steering Committee) proposed to the People’s Committee of the province / city directly under the Central Government, to continue strictly implementing the instructions on monitoring, isolation and testing. and prevention of the Covid-19 epidemic as well as on strengthening surveillance and management of immigration.

Deputy Minister of Health Do Xuan Tuyen, Vice Chairman of the People’s Committee of Hanoi Chu Xuan Dung and the delegation inspecting epidemic prevention and vaccination deployment of Covid-19 at Duc Giang General Hospital.

The units continue to strengthen leadership, direct and uphold the responsibility of the leader in epidemic prevention and control, absolutely not neglect, subjective, and off guard. Regularly reporting, reviewing, drawing experiences in epidemic prevention work. Local leaders must focus on directing and proactively deciding appropriate anti-epidemic measures and take responsibility for epidemic prevention and control in their respective localities. When an epidemic threat occurs, priority must be given to the prevention of epidemics, implementing the motto 4 on the spot, proactively responding to various levels of epidemics. Do not apply a wide gap.

In the immediate future, the units will be proactive in a new normal state, both developing their economy and being ready to prevent epidemics in all sectors and fields at all agencies, units, organizations and enterprises. and community; Ensuring safety from epidemics is the basis for socio-economic development. Management agencies must strengthen inspection, rectification, tightening the implementation of epidemic prevention measures in each agency, unit, organization, enterprise, production establishment, especially places where practice Middle crowded people, strictly handle violations.

The Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of Public Security continue to direct military and police units to coordinate with local authorities to strictly manage border entry and exit. Special attention is paid to the management of foreign experts and workers entering Vietnam to work, those who illegally enter through the trails and openings. At the same time, continue to strictly organize the implementation of isolation under the guidance of the health sector. Pay attention to prepare carefully to reopen international trade routes in accordance with the ability to prevent and fight epidemics, ensure safety, promote international exchange under the direction of the Prime Minister.

Improve testing capacity at medical facilities in the area. Units prepare materials, equipment, and biologicals for testing; organize training and training courses for staff on Covid-19 surveillance, isolation, testing and epidemic prevention, especially at the grassroots health level. Direct private health facilities to strengthen surveillance and early detection of cases with suspicious symptoms in order to promptly take samples for testing.

Direct urgently the implementation of vaccination against Covid-19 according to the allocated quantity and the local plan to use Covid-19 vaccine to ensure the completion of progress before May 15, 2021, to the right people, to be safe. full, effective; mobilize maximum resources for immunization activities, including medical facilities, medical training institutions in the area to organize Covid-19 vaccination to ensure safety and effectiveness for the in accordance with regulations. Follow up and set up teams to handle adverse incidents after vaccination. Arrange a sufficient number of anti-anaphylaxis to promptly handle serious adverse events, if any, after vaccination.

The units continue to strongly communicate in order to raise awareness and self-protect against the epidemic risk among the people, strictly implement measures to prevent and control epidemics in the new situation, absolutely not subjective to neglect. was.

In addition, the units also intensified the inspection and strict supervision of the implementation of regulations on entry, surveillance, medical isolation, and Covid-19 epidemic prevention testing, especially the pre-conditions. When entering, absolutely not to spread in the quarantine area or to the community.