MPS leader asks Public Security Forces to effectively control COVID-19 in coming time

Deputy Minister of Public Security Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Van Son, who is also Head of the Steering Committee for Pandemic Prevention and Control under the Ministry of Public Security (MPS), chaired an online meeting on February 24 in Hanoi to assign anti-pandemic missions to public security agencies and units in 2022.

Reports at the meeting read that, the MPS in 2021 sent a large number of public security medical workers to run Field Hospital No. 2 in Bac Giang province and Phuoc Loc Field Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, and treat COVID-19 patients at other epicenters.

The MPS also deployed mobile police officers, soldiers and cadets of public security schools to  pandemic-hit localities to support the local police forces in ensuring public order and security.

Additionally, relevant agencies under the MPS and local police units established medical facilities to quarantine Covid suspects and treat officers, soldiers and inmates infected with the virus as well as helped the medical sector maintain isolated zones and stamp out the pandemic. Public security agencies and units also safely administered COVID-19 vaccines to public security officers, soldiers, and prisoners in accordance with the regulations.

The public security health sector provided timely, sufficient protective equipment, medicines, and medical supplies for public security agencies and units to prevent the pandemic while effectively treating infected patients.

Speaking at the event, Deputy Minister Nguyen Van Son hailed the great effort of the public security health sector in general and members of the Steering Committee in particular, saying that they made an important contribution to the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic over the past time.

In the coming time, the COVID-19 situation will remain complicated as the number of the infected in the community increases, he stressed.

Deputy Minister Nguyen Van Son asked the MPS Steering Committee for Pandemic Prevention and Control to proactively forecast developments of the pandemic situation and guide public security agencies and units to take suitable, effective measures to prevent and control the infectious disease.