Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh (Photo: VNA) According to the PM, the COVID-19 prevention and control work isunprecedented and related polices have been implemented, and supplemented andperfected at the same time.
Based on the outcomes of this meeting, the Government andthe National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control will makeadjustments and improvements to implement safe and flexible adaptation,effectively control the pandemic, and recover and promote socio-economic developmentmore efficiently, stated Chinh, who is head of the national steering committee.
The shift towards safe and flexible adaptation and effectivepandemic control is the right direction, he said, stressing that the fourthwave of the pandemic has caused serious impacts on all aspects which requiresmore comprehensive, timely and effective solutions.
The Government leader requested ministries, sectors andlocalities to continue doing well in forecasting and understanding the pandemicsituation and developments, urgently building and completing a master programmeon pandemic prevention and control and the programme on socio-economic recoveryand development to effectively perform two tasks of pandemic prevention andcontrol and socio-economic recovery and development.
He also requested ministries, sectors and localities tocontinue to pay attention to social welfare, restore the labour supply chain, maintainpolitical stability and social order and safety, take measures to soon reopenschools in safe places, have solutions to take care of children orphaned due tothe pandemic, and step up the vaccination drive, and better treatment forCOVID-19 patients.
With the presence of new and dangerous variants ofSARS-CoV-2, this fourth outbreak of the pandemic has seriously affected theVietnamese economy in a number of fields. The country’s GDP only increased by1.42 percent in the first nine months of 2021, after recording a decline of6.17 percent in the third quarter compared to that of the same period last year.
Income and employment are seriously affected, especially forworkers in industrial zones and people who depend on services. The unemploymentrate in the third quarter of 2021 was 3.72 percent, and the underemployment ratein the working age was 4.39 percent, the highest since the first quarter of2020.
However, with the great efforts, solidarity anddetermination of the entire Party, people and army, the pandemic has beengradually put under control, especially in hotbeds such as Ho Chi Minh City andBinh Duong, Dong Nai and Long An provinces./.
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