Districts and districts actively teach directly to students in grades 7-12

Vice Chairman of Hanoi city Chu Xuan Dung chaired a meeting of the Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control. (Photo: PV/Vietnam+)

The city’s reopening of activities does not mean loosening, but opening with control and effective management. In particular, teaching and learning needs to be flexible and calculated appropriately, bringing students back to school soon.

This is the request of Hanoi’s leaders at an online meeting held by the city’s Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control on March 17.

The number of COVID-19 cases has shown signs of decreasing

According to the assessment of Vice Chairman of the City People’s Committee Chu Xuan Dung, in recent days, the number of COVID-19 cases in the city, although still high, has tended to decrease, the rate of patients F0 Hospitalization is low, the number of deaths is reduced. That shows that the city has controlled the epidemic situation.

Data from the health department shows that last week (from March 10 to March 16), Hanoi recorded an average of 28,968 cases per day. Among them, the highest day recorded 31,899 cases, but the number of cases showed signs of a slight decrease.

Along with that, the city has reviewed, consolidated, and re-added teams to monitor and support people infected with COVID-19 at home and community COVID-19 teams with nearly 120,000 participants.

The core goals of epidemic prevention and control activities (controlling mortality and severe transfer; ensuring that the number of cases does not exceed the system’s capacity to receive them) is still guaranteed, in line with the spirit of adaptation. safe, flexible, effectively control the COVID-19 epidemic .

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According to Mr. Dung, up to now, the city has reopened activities to adapt safely and flexibly but ensure control of the epidemic situation. Therefore, localities need to be more proactive in developing plans and scenarios to respond to the COVID-19 epidemic in the new situation.

City leaders pay attention to focus on epidemic prevention and control under the motto “4 on the spot”, absolutely not to be negligent, ready to respond to all possible epidemic situations.

In addition, he suggested that localities continue to care and support F0 patients with underlying diseases, the elderly, and high-risk groups, and at the same time continue to mobilize the participation of F0 support and care groups. home treatment. Localities speed up the progress of vaccination with the third dose and end this March.

In addition, Mr. Chu Xuan Dung asked the Department of Health to coordinate with relevant units to promote the implementation of digital signatures to support the settlement of social insurance payment procedures for F0 patients.

Is there a suitable plan for students to return to school?

Information at the meeting, Ms. Tran Luu Hoa, Deputy Director of the Hanoi Department of Education and Training said that last week, the rate of teachers and students infected with COVID-19 dropped sharply. Teaching situation live learning at schools still ensure and maintain flexibly adapting to the guidelines, directives of the city and the education sector.

Before the development of the COVID-19 epidemic, the representative of the Department of Education and Training suggested that districts, towns continue to direct educational institutions to promote propaganda and update information related to the public. At the same time, strengthen the direction of educational institutions to promptly report and develop plans suitable to the actual situation for students to return to school.

In this regard, Vice Chairman of the City People’s Committee Chu Xuan Dung requested the Department of Education and Training to soon issue specific instructions so that districts, towns, based on the number of cases, actively decide on Directly teaching students from grades 7-12 in accordance with the new situation.

Assessing the epidemic situation in the city, Ms. Tran Thi Nhi Ha, Director of the Hanoi Department of Health confirmed that the number of cases and hospital admissions tended to decrease in the last 7 days. The proportion of patients with severe disease and patients who were transferred to floors also tended to decrease.

Facing the complicated development of the COVID-19 epidemic, the director of the health department said that it is necessary to strengthen the surveillance of virus strains in the area, monitor patients to actively cope when new strains appear as well. as a solution to cope with the new situation.

Ms. Tran Thi Nhi Ha, Director of Hanoi Department of Health spoke at the meeting. (Photo: PV/Vietnam+)

To adapt to the new situation, Ms. Ha suggested that the city continue to implement the plan to protect and supervise people at risk and at high risk; further accelerate the 3rd injection for the entire population; strengthen communication, especially the use of masks and disinfection, self-care at home…

“Districts, districts and towns strengthen patient control in the area, including monitoring patients on applications to promptly switch floors with severe patients; increase drug distribution for eligible subjects; care room fighting seasonal epidemics to avoid epidemics…,” emphasized Ms. Tran Thi Nhi Ha.

Actively welcome back international guests

At the meeting, a representative of the Department of Tourism said that since March 15, tourism activities have been fully opened, including domestic tourism, international arrivals, and international travel.

“The Department of Tourism is urgently developing a plan to reopen tourism activities under new normal conditions to ensure safety according to the guidance of the central government and the city,” a representative of the tourism department said.

In the coming time, the Department of Tourism recommends that localities plan to organize synchronous tourism activities, from relic sites to related services. In addition, the Department of Tourism also suggested that the units promote propaganda for tourists about tours and tourism products of businesses for people to choose.

In particular, the 31st SEA Games is an opportunity to promote tourism in the capital with international friends, so localities need to step up propaganda and prepare well for this event.

Regarding the issue of Vietnam opening its doors to international tourists from March 15, the city’s Vice President asked the tourism department to take the initiative in plans to ensure safe arrival of tourists to prevent and control the epidemic in accordance with regulations. regulations of the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and coordinate with the press agencies to promote information and communication, especially during the 31st SEA Games, contributing to promoting tourism capital city, attracting international tourists to Hanoi./.

According to Xuan Quang (Vietnam+)