Natural disasters in Vietnam killed 192 people over the past two months; 57 people are still missing, and the country has incurred economic losses of 30 trillion dong (1.3 billion dollars).
The Vietnamese authorities said Wednesday that the outcome of the past two months exceeded the losses of the entire past year when disasters killed 132 people and led to losses of 6.2 trillion dong.
"The country witnessed nine hurricanes and two tropical depressions in just two months, from mid-September to mid-November.
"These abnormal weather phenomena cost our country 30 trillion dong," said Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Newin Xuan Kong.
The central region of Vietnam had a difficult year, as the coronavirus pandemic crippled the important tourism sector which harvests the bigger chum of hard currency to the Vietnamese treasury, even long before the striking of 9 hurricanes that destroyed crops and damaged the homes of hundreds of thousands of people.
Vietnam is always exposed to devastating storms and floods due to the long coasts overlooking open seas.
The Vietnamese media announced that Cyclone Mulaf, which swept through Vietnam at the end of last October, caused landslides that killed at least 15 people and lost 38 others.
Rescuers recovered 8 bodies at that time in the village of Tra, where houses collapsed, and the authorities also sent hundreds of soldiers and heavy equipment to landslide sites in remote areas of Quang Province.
The total number of landslide victims due to Cyclone Mulaf rose to at least 19, while 64 are still missing.
Hurricane Mulaf forced hundreds of thousands of people in Vietnam to search for safe haven after the accompanying winds exceeded one hundred and fifty kilometers per hour.
The authorities called on the competent authorities to prepare for the transfer of more than one million and three hundred thousand people from the areas located on the cyclone road, which is the strongest in two decades.
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