Spraying insecticides to ensure environmental hygiene for the A80 Anniversary Ceremony

Chemical spraying will be carried out twice at 10 crowded locations, where LED screens are installed, parade gathering points, parade routes, and parade routes.

The Hanoi Center for Disease Control (CDC) has established a Steering Committee for epidemic prevention and control; established a mobile epidemic prevention team to serve the activities of the 80th anniversary of the August Revolution and National Day September 2 (A80), established a team to inspect and supervise environmental sanitation, epidemic prevention and control, clean water quality and spraying of insecticides for the celebration.

According to the plan, chemical spraying will be carried out twice at 10 crowded places, where LED screens are installed, parade and marching locations, parade routes, and other locations serving the Celebration activities before the national rehearsal (August 30, 2025).

The locations sprayed with chemicals include Long Bien Park (Viet Hung ward), Quan Ngua Stadium (Ngoc Ha ward), Yen So Park (Hoang Mai ward), August Revolution Square (Cua Nam ward), Hoa Binh Park (Xuan Dinh ward), Thong Nhat Park (Hai Ba Trung ward), National Exhibition Fair Center (Dong Anh commune), Nguyen Trai Flower Garden (Ha Dong ward), Vacant land at 61 Tran Phu (Ba Dinh ward), Cau Giay Park (Cau Giay ward).

Phase 1 was completed before August 23; phase 2 from August 26-28, ensuring completion before the national rehearsal date (August 30).

Chemical spraying is carried out by units at night to avoid affecting people, not polluting the surrounding environment, and to ensure quality and spraying techniques in accordance with professional regulations of the Ministry of Health .

The units also closely coordinate with the local authorities, health sector and relevant departments to ensure security, safety and promote information, propaganda, and guidance for people within the chemical spraying area to coordinate and move away from the locations during the chemical spraying period...

Medical staff spray chemicals to kill mosquitoes. (Photo: Tuan Duc/VNA)

Units deploy techniques of spraying residual chemicals to kill mosquitoes and insects, combined with hot fogging to spread a certain amount of chemicals evenly on surfaces, substrates, indoor and outdoor walls, seating areas, stage areas, LED screen areas, parade and marching areas, flower gardens, landscapes, lawns, around parade and marching routes and other locations to immediately reduce the density of adult mosquitoes, mosquito larvae, and disease-transmitting insects.

The forces also strengthen control of mosquito larvae nests through inspection of campuses and surrounding environments to identify locations with mosquito larvae nests or at risk of mosquito larvae nests to carry out treatment and eliminate mosquito larvae nests using mechanical, biological or chemical measures as prescribed.

The Hanoi Center for Disease Control has coordinated with relevant units to monitor water quality and hygiene at 20 water supply facilities in the city, noting that all units have conducted internal inspections of clean water quality with sufficient number of parameter samples and frequency according to QCVN 01-1:2024/BYT.

The units have organized supervision of environmental sanitation work to prevent and control epidemics at 11 bus stations, train stations, 13 event areas and hotels, where delegates stay.

Director of the Hanoi Center for Disease Control Bui Van Hao informed that the unit has arranged 3 mobile epidemic prevention teams on duty at the center, each team has 6 members, ready to coordinate epidemiological investigation, collect samples and handle epidemics in emergency situations. The center assigns specific tasks to specialized departments and offices to monitor, handle the environment and respond to epidemics.

The Center conducts statistical reports on the epidemic situation and activities to respond to the A80th Anniversary celebration upon request.

The Hanoi Center for Disease Control closely monitors the health of passengers entering Noi Bai International Airport using body temperature scanners and other professional measures, in order to promptly detect suspected cases of infectious diseases entering Hanoi (especially those coming from areas with outbreaks).

The masses warmly welcomed the Vietnamese Women's Peacekeeping Unit during the joint training session. (Photo: Le Dong/VNA)

The Center coordinates with health stations to monitor and proactively detect patients with infectious diseases at public and non-public hospitals/medical facilities in the city.

There are 8 mobile anti-epidemic teams of the Center assigned to be in charge of 126 new communes and wards after the merger; they have organized supervision and supported most communes and wards according to plan.

The Center strengthens preparation, develops plans to handle epidemic situations, urgent public health issues, ensures adequate forces, means, equipment, supplies, medicines... to meet medical needs for the forces participating in the mission, delegates and people; organizes unified command and operation, closely coordinates and cooperates with relevant agencies and units; deploys specific and detailed instructions and guidance on tasks to ensure epidemic prevention and control to serve the preliminary review, general rehearsal, and celebration in a timely and effective manner./.

(Vietnam+)

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