Super Typhoon Yagi has passed, but its effects continue to severely impact northern regions of Vietnam. The country is intensifying efforts to recover from the damage.
The dispatch was sent to the ministers of national defence, public security, and finance along with the chairpersons of the People’s Committees of the northern provinces of Lao Cai, Hoa Binh, Son La, Lai Chau, Dien Bien, Ha Giang, Cao Bang, Bac Kan, Yen Bai, Tuyen Quang, Phu Tho, Bac Giang, Thai Nguyen, and Lang Son.
It notes that Typhoon Yagi and post-storm circulation triggered widespread downpour across the northern region, especially in mountainous and midland provinces, resulting in heavy life and property losses and seriously impacting economic activities and people’s life.
Major rivers such as Thao, Lo, Thuong, Luc Nam, Thai Binh, and Hong (Red) have reached warning levels, causing threats to cities and provinces they run through.
In recent days, Typhoon Yagi has inflicted severe damage across several northern provinces, disrupting the economy, society, and daily life for local residents. Authorities are working closely with communities to swiftly address the storm’s aftermath.
To quickly stabilise economic activities and people’s life, ensure no one is left hungry, cold, homeless, or without clean water or health care, and enable students to soon go back to school, the PM requested the ministers of national defence and public security order related units to actively coordinate with the affected localities to quickly deliver food, essential supplies, and clean water to residents in isolated areas and those in need as soon as possible.
Meanwhile, the secretaries of the Party Committees and the chairpersons of the People’s Committees of those localities were demanded to direct local authorities to work with the ministries of national defence and public security to grasp people’s needs, distribute food and essential goods to storm-hit people in the fastest and efficient manner, while preventing losses and wastefulness during the process.
Serious flooding triggered by heavy rain after Typhoon Yagi in Bao Lac district, Cao Bang province. (Photo: VNA)
The Government leader also asked them to promptly review, repair, and rehabilitate the health establishments damaged by the typhoon and following downpour and floods to give timely health care for the injured and the public.
They also need to quicky recover the damaged schools and classrooms so that students can resume learning early, according to the dispatch.
Deputy Prime Minister Ho Duc Phoc was assigned to give direct instructions to the abovementioned ministries, sectors, and localities to carry out the dispatch.
Heavy rains and floods triggered by super typhoon Yagi, one of the strongest to hit Vietnam in decades, had left 181 dead and 145 missing as of 10:00 pm on September 11, statistics show.
The northern mountainous provinces of Lao Cai recorded 72 dead and 111 missing, Cao Bang 34 dead and 18 missing, and Yen Bai 40 dead and four missing, according to the Department of Dyke Management and Natural Disaster Prevention and Control under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Other northern localities, including Quang Ninh, Hai Phong, Hai Duong, Hanoi, Hoa Binh, Lang Son, Bac Giang, Tuyen Quang, Ha Giang, Lai Chau, Vinh Phuc, and Phu Tho, also reported the human losses.
Source: VNA
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