Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has ordered ministries, sectors and localities to thoroughly review COVID-19 prevention and control measures and scenarios ahead of the 13th National Party Congress scheduled to take place from January 25 to February 2.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc (Photo: VNA)– Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has ordered
ministries, sectors and localities to thoroughly review COVID-19 prevention and
control measures and scenarios ahead of the 13th National Party
Congress scheduled to take place from January 25 to February 2.
Amid complicated developments of the pandemic with the appearance of new and more contagious variants of the
coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, PM Phuc asked Ministers, Chairpersons of local People’s
Committees and heads of the steering committees for COVID-19 prevention and
control to intensify disease prevention measures as directed by the Politburo
and Secretariat of the Party Central Committee, the Government, the Prime
Minister and the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and
Control.
Taking samples for COVID-19 testing (Photo: VNA)
In a dispatch dated January 13, he requested assigning other officials
to handle the work in replace of members of the National Steering Committee
for COVID-19 Prevention and Control who will participate in the Congress.
The head and members of the Committee who will attend the
Congress have to hand over their tasks related to disease prevention and
control to the assigned people, he asked./.