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Vietnam Says Recent Typhoons Caused 192 Deaths 1.3 Bln Damages (view source)
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, 07:24, 22 December 2020Created page with "<br>HANOI, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Natural disasters in the past two months caused Vietnam 30 trillion dong ($1.3 billion) in [http://news.sky.com/search?term=economic%20damage econ..."
<br>HANOI, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Natural disasters in the past two months caused Vietnam 30 trillion dong ($1.3 billion) in [http://news.sky.com/search?term=economic%20damage economic damage] and killed 192 people, with 57 still missing, authorities said on Wednesday, with its central provinces bearing most of the losses.<br> <br>Vietnam's central region has had a tough year, with its important tourism industry crippled by the coronavirus pandemic long before the [http://www.answers.com/topic/arrival arrival] of nine typhoons that wiped out crops and damaged homes of hundreds of thousands people.<br> <br>The two-month toll surpassed losses for the whole of last year, when disasters killed 132 people and caused 6.2 trillion in damage, official data showed.<br> <br>"We embraced nine typhoons and two tropical depressions in just two months, from mid-September to mid-November. Those abnormal weather events cost our country 30 trillion dong," said Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong in a government statement.<br> <br>"We have to make sure our residents are not homeless, suffering from hunger or lacking fresh water post-typhoon," Cuong added.<br> <br>Vietnam's economic growth is expected to slow to 2%-3% this year after expanding 7.02% in 2019 due to the wider impact of the coronavirus pandemic and natural disasters.<br> <br>Vietnam is prone to destructive storms and [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-du-lich-ha-noi-bac-kan-ho-ba-be-cao-bang-hang-pac-bo-thac-ban-gioc.html kynghidongduong.vn] flooding due to its long coastline.<br> <br>About 11.8 million people in Vietnam's costal provinces are exposed to the threat of intense flooding, with 35% of settlements located on crowded and eroding coastlines, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-du-lich-ha-noi-bac-kan-ho-ba-be-cao-bang-hang-pac-bo-thac-ban-gioc.html tour hồ ba bể] a World Bank report said in October.<br><br>(Reporting by Phuong Nguyen; Editing by Martin Petty)<br>
