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At 10:00 p.m. on November 20 (Hanoi time), from Algeria, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired an online emergency meeting with leaders of ministries, agencies, and localities on the situation and urgent solutions to respond to floods and natural disasters in a number of Central provinces. Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh attended the Government headquarters bridge, Deputy Prime Minister Ho Quoc Dung attended the bridge. Khanh Hoa Provincial Peoples Committee headquarters, leaders of the National Civil Defense Steering Committee, ministries, branches and localities attended meetings at bridge points in the country. Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh expressed his sympathies with the party committees, authorities, and people of localities that are severely affected by natural disasters, sending his deepest condolences to the families of those who died, are missing, or injured - Photo: VGP/Nhat BacSaving people, protecting the lives and health of people is the most important. Speaking at the meeting, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh expressed his sympathies with the party committees, authorities, and people of localities that are being severely affected by natural disasters. accident, sending my deepest condolences to the families of those who died, are missing, or are injured. The Prime Minister stated that, following the direction of General Secretary To Lam, currently saving people and protecting peoples lives and health is the most important; At the same time, search for missing people; take care of the funeral of the deceased. Along with that, we must immediately fix housing for people, schools for students, and medical examination and treatment places for patients. Immediate and timely access to food supplies, drinking water, and medicine for divided areas. Fix problems with electricity, telecommunications, and traffic. Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh attended the Government headquarters bridge - Photo VGP/Dinh Hai According to the updated report until 8:00 p.m. on November 20, from the morning of November 16 until now, the area from Gia Lai to Khanh Hoa has had very heavy rain with some places over 1,700 mm (1,792 mm in Dak Lak). Floods on Ba River and Ky Lo River (Dak Lak) and Dinh Ninh Hoa River (Khanh Hoa) have reached a historic flood peak of 0.2-1.1m and are falling. Regarding response direction, the Prime Minister has issued 05 dispatches directing response and overcoming the consequences of rain, floods, and landslides. The Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister have regularly contacted leaders to understand the situation and direct the implementation of flood response work. On November 18-20, Deputy Prime Minister Ho Quoc Dung directly inspected and directed the response and recovery work and visited damaged people in Khanh Hoa and Dak Lak provinces. On the evening of November 20, the Deputy Prime Minister chaired an online meeting with the provinces of Gia Lai, Dak Lak, Khanh Hoa, and Lam Dong. The Khanh Hoa province bridgehead was attended by Deputy Prime Minister Ho Quoc Dung; Secretary of Khanh Hoa Provincial Party Committee Nghiem Xuan Thanh; Chairman of the Provincial Peoples Committee Tran Phong; Representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of National Defense... - Photo VGP/Mai Anh Urgently deploying work to overcome the consequences of rain and floods. On November 18, the Prime Minister decided to provide emergency support of 50 billion VND to Khanh Hoa province to overcome damage caused by floods. Ministries, branches and localities have seriously implemented the direction of the Prime Minister and the National Civil Defense Steering Committee. The Ministry of National Defense has mobilized 18,066 officers and soldiers and 441 vehicles; The Ministry of Public Security mobilized 17,624 officers and soldiers, 24,143 forces to participate in protecting security and order at the grassroots, and 3,207 vehicles deployed to respond to floods and overcome the consequences. The Ministry of Agriculture and Environment sent 03 working groups to coordinate with localities early to proactively respond and overcome the consequences; Organized 02 waves of SMS messages to 26.4 million tenants and 24.1 million Zalo messages to warn people in areas affected by rain and floods. Localities urgently organized the evacuation of 18,408 households/61,035 people from dangerous areas; suspend students from school; has directed the operation of reservoirs to reduce floods for the downstream area (hydroelectric plants in the Ba River basin have cut 96.3 million m3, contributing to reducing floods for the downstream area). There have been 50 deaths and missing people, of which 41 people died, 09 people are missing. There were 167 houses damaged, 51,138 houses flooded (Gia Lai 19,200, Dak Lak 22,938, Khanh Hoa 9,000); Khanh Hoa, Gia Lai, and Dak Lak provinces are being flooded on a large scale in many wards/communes (Khanh Hoa: 54 communes/ward; Gia Lai: 35 communes/ward; Dak Lak: 34 communes/ward). Regarding agriculture, 13,026 hectares of rice, crops, and vegetables were damaged; 2,183 hectares of perennial and annual crops were damaged; 30,731 heads of cattle and poultry died or were swept away; 88 hectares of lobster farming were damaged (Khanh Hoa). Regarding traffic, there are currently 30 locations on national highways that are locally flooded, causing traffic jams. Many locations on provincial roads and inter-commune roads were deeply flooded and landslides caused traffic jams. Regarding electricity, more than 1 million customers had their power cut off, more than 457,000 customers have been restored, and 553,250 customers still lost power. Localities continue to review and compile damage data and organize remediation. At the Khanh Hoa bridgehead, Chairman of the Provincial Peoples Committee Tran Phong reported on overcoming the consequences of rain and flood - Photo VGP/Mai Anh Khanh Hoa provin
