While the COVID-19 pandemic is getting more complicated, Hanoi - Amsterdam High School for the Gifted is becoming more creative with its propaganda on preventing and fighting COVID-19. Important points of the Prime Minister’s Directive 16 and Hanoi Municipal People’s Committee’s Directive 17 are widely propagated on the school’s website, in teachers’ and students’ groups for everybody to easily access and get a gist of. 

The messages “Stay home - stay safe - be happy”, “Staying home means patriotism” received positive responses. Within the past week, teachers and students filmed videos wearing masks with the song “Covid mau di di” as the background music with the desire to cheer and spread the anti-epidemic spirit to the frontline team as well as remind everyone to always implement the 5K message.

In only 3 days was the “Stay home - Stay safe - Be happy” video finished, with the participation of the school faculty and students

In response to the message "Stay Home, Stay Safe", the Hanoi - Amsterdam High School for the Gifted Youth Union also created short videos for expertise groups on TikTok or Facebook to jointly spread epidemic prevention regulations, attracting a large number of parents and students, contributing to spreading the positive anti-epidemic spirit.

The above message is accompanied by pictures taken by the teachers and students themselves at home, with the blue and white masks which have the beautiful logo of the school sent to students hoping everybody will comply with the social distancing order.

Ms. Phan Hong Anh, Secretary of the school's Youth Union said: "With a hope to spread the 5K message to everybody, we came up with an idea to make a publicitiy video. It quickly gained great responses from over 200 teachers, members of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union and Pioneer Organization; the video, hence, was finished within such a short period of time. Using music is an effective way to raise people’s awareness of epidemic prevention. Especially, during the current complicated pandemic, staying at home and implementing social distancing regulations is contributing to the fight against the epidemic.”

A video of Hanoi - Amsterdam Junior High School’s Ho Chi Minh Pioneers’ Organization members

At present, "Stay home - Stay safe" is a positive message and completely in line with the recommendations from the government to the people in protecting themselves against the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. In the face of the complicated development of the epidemic, each individual should take responsibility for themselves and the society with small actions, or simply by staying at home and abiding by the social distancing order to contribute to the fight against the pandemic!

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Translator: Nguyen Minh Anh - Russian-English 1821