Deputy Minister Nguyen Van Son works with leaders of local police departments on COVID-19 control

Deputy Minister Nguyen Van Son speaks at the event.

At the meeting, Deputy Minister Nguyen Van Son listened to reports from police leaders of pandemic-hit provinces and cities on the situation and results of pandemic prevention and control in their localities as well as their difficulties and recommendations.

According to the report of the Ho Chi Minh City police, as the city has seen increasingly complicated developments in the pandemic, the municipal police have mobilized all officers and soldiers to engage in prevention and control of the disease. 

They set up pandemic checkpoints on gateways to pandemic-hit areas and traced contacts with COVID-19 patients in the community. The municipal police leadership also called on officers and soldiers to support functional forces working on the frontline of the fight against the pandemic as well as encouraged agencies and businesses to offer medical equipment, protective clothing sets, and face masks to pandemic prevention and control efforts. 

At the same time, local police leaders promptly organized testing for officers and soldiers at high risks and provided sufficient logistics to the frontline policemen.

The Ho Chi Minh City Police Department suggested the MPS leadership and the MPS Disease Prevention and Control Steering Committee provide the city’s police with more vaccines to vaccinate police officers, especially in Thu Duc city, Tan Binh, Go Vap and Binh Tan districts, and cadets of public security schools participating in ensuring security and order and fighting the pandemic in the city.

To conclude the meeting, Deputy Minister Nguyen Van Son expressed his sympathy on the difficulties and hardships experienced by all police officers and soldiers in the pandemic prevention and control, and at the same time praised their sense of responsibility and results in controlling the disease.

The Deputy Minister emphasized that, as the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic mainly hit hospitals and industrial zones with a large number of infections, the local police forces should review their plans and measures to prevent the spread of the pandemic in their units, as well as proactively prepare quarantine zones for infected police officers. 

In addition, local-level police hospitals and clinics as well as under-ministerial hospitals should actively work out COVID-19 plans to conduct testing and treat COVID patients at maximum. The Deputy Minister also requested the Hospital 30/4 under the MPS to accelerate the launch of the testing systems for police officers, including both rapid antigen tests and RT-PCR tests.