Northern coastal provinces in a hurry have mobilized all forces to evacuate around 29,887 people to safe places ahead of typhoon Talim, which is forecast to make landfall in Northern Vietnam on July 18.
Lam Dong Province is planning to finish construction projects to resettle evacuated residents from natural disaster areas and freely migrants in 2024 and 2025.
The Northern and North-Central regions are experiencing worse weather conditions with prolonged downpours and flooding. Currently, many people have been isolated by floodwater and many places are at risk of landslides.
Nearly 500 overseas Vietnamese in the Netherlands and those evacuated from Ukraine on January 15 gathered at Vietnam Embassy in the Netherlands for a celebration of the Lunar New Year, the biggest traditional festival in a year for Vietnamese.
The People's Committee of the Central Province of Thua Thien - Hue requested people's committees of districts, towns, and Hue city to review evacuation plans for the relocation of households in areas at risk of being affected by floods and storms to a safer place. According to the province’s preparation, 26,255 households with 99,424 people will be evacuated to other shelters.
Quang Nam Province sent an urgent message on responding to Storm Noru on the morning of September 26. In case this super typhoon hits Central Vietnam, this province will organize the evacuation of 401,901 people, of which 111,470 people will be relocated on the spot, and 290,585 people will be evacuated.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh asked localities to stabilize daily activities of households in landslide areas and ensure safety for them and major infrastructure facilities.
At the end of May 2023, the beginning of the rainy season increased land erosion along rivers and canals in the Mekong Delta including the Tien River, Hau River and Ca Mau peninsula.
The Party and State of Vietnam give the highest priority to citizen protection measures so as to ensure safety of lives, assets, and legitimate and rightful interests of Vietnamese citizens and legal entities, as well as staff members of Vietnamese representative offices in Ukraine, said spokeswoman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Le Thi Thu Hang.
The National Highway 15D, the only road to La Lay International Border Gate in Quang Tri Province, has suffered severe landslides and subsidence, causing traffic to be completely paralyzed.
During the flood, army officers and soldiers in Ba To District in the central coastal province of Quang Ngai approached a mountainous village in Ba Ngac Commune to move people away from flooded and dangerous areas and bring them to a safe place.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) on October 28 held a ceremony to announce a decision on the establishment its Steering Committee for the protection of Vietnamese citizens abroad.
According to the Government's report, the total amount of wastewater collected and treated in urban areas is very low, only about 15 percent whereas wastewater in most rural residential areas is not treated.
To avoid a dual disaster from the current complicated Covid-19 pandemic along with storm Conson, the Northern, North-Central coastal regions have prepared to evacuate nearly 760,000 local people as the storm could bear down on the mainland with a gusty wind of level 11 moving 100-115 kilometers an hour.
