Storms, floods cause economic loss of over 730 million USD: Gov’t report
Since late September, 235 people have been reported dead and missing by consecutive storms and floods, which have also caused an estimated economic loss of about 17 trillion VND (733.4 million USD).
Floods submerge many houses in central region (Source: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Since late September, 235 people have been reporteddead and missing by consecutive storms and floods, which have also caused anestimated economic loss of about 17 trillion VND (733.4 million USD).
The figures were released in a Government report on disasterprevention and control in the central region reported to the National Assemblyon November 2.
In the document, the Government defined six urgent tasks.Specifically, it will mobilise all forces and equipment to find missingvictims, including those of landslides at Rao Trang 3 Hydro-power Plantconstruction site in Thua Thien-Hue, in Quang Nam’s Nam Tra My and Phuoc Sondistricts and fishermen of Binh Dinh’s two fishing vessels, while requestingsafety for search and rescue forces.
The Government will focus on relief activities to helplocals, especially those in far-flung areas, stabilise their life; supportingthem in house repair and providing food and medicine for them; visiting andencouraging families of the victims.
The Ministries, sectors and localities will quickly restoredamaged infrastructure facilities, especially the power supply system,transport, dykes, schools and hospitals, while concentrating on environmentsanitation, especially water for daily activities, to prevent diseases frombreaking out.
Attention will also be paid to developments of storm Goni,which is forecast to affect the central region in the coming days, and activelyevacuate people out of dangerous areas.
For long-term missions, the Government will direct thespecific assessment and building of different climate change scenarios to haveappropriate response solutions.
It will improve the quality of disaster forecasts andwarning, speed up the making of maps warning risks of landslides and flashfloods, and add disaster prevention and response and consequence handling intodevelopment plans and strategies of each sector and locality.
The Government, ministries, sectors and localities will alsoprioritise allocating money in a mid-term public investment plan for 2021-2025and annual central and local budget estimates for disaster prevention andcontrol and search and rescue missions./.
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Floods submerge many houses in central region (Source: VNA) 
