According to AFP news agency, as of 9pm (Vietnam time) on February 13, the total number of people killed by earthquakes in Turkey and Syria has reached more than 37,000 people.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said that casualties in northwest Syria currently controlled by the opposition had reached 4,300 people killed and 7,600 wounded. The localities with the most deaths were Harim, followed by Afrin and Jebel Saman.
Plus the number of victims in the area set by the Government Syria control, the total death toll in this Middle Eastern country has reached more than 5,714 people.
Number of people killed is expected to increase further as the focus of the response shifts from rescuing survivors from the rubble to providing food, shelter and care to those affected.
Regarding rescue work, Turkish officials and media said that after 178 hours of being trapped, a girl named Miray has just been rescued from the rubble of an apartment building in the southern city of Adiyaman. .
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CNN Turkish TV channel reported that the girl was 6 years old and that rescuers were about to reach her sister. Earlier, Turkish Transport Minister Adil Karaismailoglu said the girl was about 4 years old.
Assessment of economic losses due to earthquake disaster On February 6, the Turkish Business and Business Federation estimated the country could lose up to 84.1 billion USD, while the government put the figure at more than 50 billion USD.
A report released by the Turkish Business and Business Federation over the weekend showed that of the total damage of 84.1 billion USD, 70.8 billion USD was the cost of repairing thousands of buildings, 10.4 billion USD. $2.9 billion in lost national revenue and $2.9 billion in lost workdays.
The biggest cost will be rebuilding homes, transmission lines and infrastructure, meeting the short-, medium- and long-term housing needs for hundreds of thousands of people who have lost their homes.
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Executive Director Mahmoud Mohieldin said the earthquake’s impact on GDP is unlikely to be as severe as the 1999 earthquake in northwestern Turkey, the industrial heart of Turkey. country.
After initial effects in the coming months, public and private investment in reconstruction should help boost GDP. However, economic experts and Turkish officials said the earthquake could cut the country’s economic growth by 2% this year.
Before the earthquake, the Turkish government estimated the country’s economic growth in 2022 to reach 5% and 5.5% in 2023. After the disaster, Turkey declared a state of emergency in 10 provinces, while the central bank has allowed payment of some loans to be delayed.
An estimated 13.4 million people live in 10 earthquake-affected provinces, accounting for 15.4% of the population of Turkey, contributing about 10% of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Turkey will complete the rebuilding work in a year and that the government is preparing a program to restore the country.
Dang Anh (VNA/Vietnam+)