In the month (September 19th to October 18th, 2020), the whole country had 19,365 cases of hemorrhagic fever (6 cases died), compared to the same period last year, the number of hemorrhagic fever cases decreased by 54.7%
Total import and export turnover of 10 months in 2020 was estimated at 439.82 billion USD, rise of 2.6% over the same period last year, with a export turnover of 229.27 billion USD, increased by 4.7%; import turnover of 210.55 billion USD, reduce by 0.4%
Generally for ten months, passengers carried still decreased of 29.7% and freight carried fell by 7.5%.
Generally, in 10 months of this year, realized investment capital from the state budget reached 354.6 trillion VND, equaling 69.8% of the year plan and up 34.4% against the same period last year
Generally for ten months, gross retail sales of consumer goods and services reached 4.123 trillion VND, rising by 1.3% over that in the same period last year, if excluding the price factor, the decrease was 3% (that in the same period in 2019 increased by 9.7%)
In October, the people’s living was still generally stability and there was no locality that reported hunger
Along with tending and harvesting winter paddy, localities across the country basically finished the summer-autumn rice production with the cultivated area reaching 1,944.8 thousand hectares, down by 64.8 thousand hectares compared to the summer-autumn crop in 2019
In October, the northern provinces focus on completing the afforestation at the end of the season, the southern provinces enter the main season of afforestation, and the localities take care of the seedlings and the planted forest area.
The average consumer price index of 10 months of 2020 increased by 3.71% over the same period last year.
Generally for 10 months of 2020, the IIP was estimated to increase by 2.7% over the same period last year, which was lower than the increase of 9.5% in the same period of 2019.
