Young couples rush to the center of the epidemic-Young people

During the time when the fourth epidemic broke out strongly in the middle and end of 2021, regardless of day and night, difficulties, young people were still working hard in each street and alley to promptly support dangerous cases. level, hardship in the midst of a pandemic. Among these young people, there are many young couples who are union officials and teachers, who have held hands in the epidemic center.

Nam Viet couple – Hoang Oanh enthusiastically devote their youth during the peak time of anti-epidemic

From husband and wife who are also union secretaries

At the beginning of July 2021, when the COVID-19 epidemic began to break out in many localities in Ho Chi Minh City, Mr. Ngo Nam Viet (31 years old, Secretary of the Youth Union of Ward 1, Tan Binh District) and his wife, Ms. Cao Thi Hoang Oanh. (29 years old, Secretary of the Youth Union of Ward 10) decided to move to a living unit to focus on anti-epidemic work and at the same time keep her two young children safe.

“Work on peak days takes place almost 24/7. We do whatever we can to help the medical staff and people, but the most pressure is the fear that we will get infected and carry the disease to our colleagues and family,” Viet shared.

Meanwhile, Ward 10 where Mr. Viet’s wife works is the area with the latest recorded cases in Tan Binh district, but also the locality with the highest number of cases in the district, the workload is also higher. much more than in other regions.

“At that time, it was the beginning of the outbreak, so I was afraid because I had to be in close contact with F0. The thing that scares me the most is bringing the disease home and spreading it to loved ones. So, after that period, it was completely “capitalized” at the mobile medical station”, Hoang Oanh recounted.

Hoang Oanh directly supports F0 at home

Recalling the series of days of hard work against the epidemic, Mr. Ngo Nam Viet said that the past journey was an experience that made him proud, and later on, he can tell his children and grandchildren about a time when he devoted his life to the world. youth in the period of fighting the pandemic, thereby helping people feel secure to implement distance to overcome the dangerous pandemic together with the city. On the other hand, I and my youth union members have achieved the key goal of gradually expanding the green zone and reducing the number of infections.

The couple Tran Tran – Cong Anh together in anti-epidemic suits

To the young couple, the teacher entered the epidemic center

Like the Nam Viet-Hoang Oanh couple, the young couple Tran Tran and Cong Anh are both boarding teachers and youth assistants at Thanh Nhan High School (HCMC) who also joined the epidemic center to help people. Tran Tran – Cong Anh’s anti-epidemic journey from the beginning of September 2021. At this time, the school’s enrollment has also been completed, students only study online, so the two have a lot of free time.

However, volunteering this time is different from other times because of the high level of danger, so some family members are confused. However, the enthusiasm of youth prompted the young couple to convince their family to join the anti-epidemic force at a time when the epidemic was complicated.

The young couple’s baggage to join the anti-epidemic force is a backpack and a certificate of 2 vaccinations. On September 8, Tran and his wife were assigned by Tan Binh District Doan to join the anti-epidemic force of Ward 13. The main job of the young couple is taking samples for testing, data entry, tracing…

Every day, they start work at 7am and end at 5pm, but sometimes it lasts until 19 – 20h to finish. For the convenience of work, the young couple was arranged to live at a primary school in the ward.

Besides the happy and sad stories in nearly a month of participating in the fight against the epidemic, Tran Tran – Cong Anh also has an unforgettable memory, which is to celebrate her birthday together in a protective suit.

On October 3, 2021, Tran celebrated her 28th birthday while still participating in the fight against the epidemic. Previously, on September 26, Tran’s husband Cong Anh also celebrated his 28th birthday while on duty to take samples for testing. n

To preserve this special memory, Tran Tran and Cong Anh together took pictures together in protective suits. In addition, they also took many pictures with the team as a form of birthday greetings.