FILE PHOTO: A woman walks in a flooded road after her village was isolated by the Dakdrinh Hydropower discharge in the Typhoon Molave aftermath, in Tinh An village, Quang Ngai province, Vietnam October 29, 2020. REUTERS/Thanh Hue/File Photo
HANOI (Reuters) - Natural disasters in the past two months caused Vietnam 30 trillion dong ($1.3 billion) in economic damage and killed 192 people, with 57 still missing, authorities said on Wednesday, with its central provinces bearing most of the losses.
Vietnam's central region has had a tough year, with its important tourism industry crippled by the coronavirus pandemic long before the arrival of nine typhoons that wiped out crops and damaged homes of hundreds of thousands people.
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