According to a quick report from the Department of Agriculture and Environment (Standing Agency for Natural Disaster Prevention of the City's Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention, Search and Rescue and Civil Defense), by the morning of July 20, localities had notified and warned 9,900 cages; 16,000 tourists in Cat Ba, including 2,500 foreign visitors, about the developments of storm Wipha. It is expected that on the morning of July 20, tourists will move to the mainland.
The dike system in the city has 75 key points of dykes, embankments, and sewers that need attention in storm and flood prevention. The above key points have been urgently developed and approved by communes, wards and special zones for key protection plans according to the "four on-site" motto. Irrigation works exploitation companies in the city have removed and lowered buffer water, prepared machinery, equipment, and standing forces to operate according to requirements.
According to reports from localities, the plan to evacuate people according to the disaster response plan according to the risk level is 6,668 households/19,701 people need to be evacuated to a safe place.
Regarding the situation of moving ships, according to the report of the Hai Phong Border Guard Command, by 5:00 a.m. on July 20, the authorities had coordinated to count and notify: 1,657 vehicles/4,668 workers, 157 cages/289 workers, 3 guardrails/6 workers in operation and anchored to know the developments of the storm to proactively prevent it.
Latest update from the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, at 10:00 a.m. on July 20, the center of the storm was at about 21.8 degrees north latitude; 114.2 degrees east longitude, in the northern sea area of the North East Sea, about 680 km east of Quang Ninh - Hai Phong.
It is forecasted that in the next 24 hours, the storm will move west, then turn west-southwest at a speed of 20-25 km/h. At 10:00 on July 21, the center of the storm was at about 20.9 degrees north latitude; 109.2 degrees east longitude, in the sea east of the northern part of the Gulf of Tonkin. The strongest wind near the storm center is level 11, gusting to level 14. The danger zone is identified as the north of the latitude of 19.5 degrees north; the longitude ranges from 107.5 degrees east to 115.5 degrees east. The natural disaster risk level is level 3 for the northern sea area of the North East Sea, east of the northern Gulf of Tonkin.
