Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung (L) visits Samsung Electronics Vietnam in Thai Nguyen province on February 13 (Photo: vtc.vn) Hanoi (VNA) - Morethan 800 businesses and 8,700 employees have been affected by the COVID-19 epidemic,according to the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.
The ministry has just released a report on the impact of the diseasecaused by the novel coronavirus first reported in Wuhan, China.
Accordingly, a survey of 30 provinces and cities showed that 322out of 181,597 enterprises have suspended operations, while 553 enterprisesreduced or narrowed their production and business scale.
Twenty-two provinces and cities reported that 8,773 workers havebeen affected and 1,027 made unemployed.
In the report of 63 localities, of the 33,775 Chinese workers employedin the localities under work permits, 26,388 went back to China to celebratethe Lunar New Year, and most of them have not returned to Vietnam due to theepidemic.
As of 4pm on February 10, 15,018 Chinese workers were working inVietnam, including 7,388 workers who stayed in Vietnam during the Lunar NewYear holiday and 7,630 Chinese workers returned after the holiday.
Data on the number of Vietnamese workers working abroad undercontracts showed that Vietnam currently has 524,153 employees working inmainland China and other countries and territories where COVID-19 caseshave been confirmed, including Taiwan, Macau, Japan, the Republic of Korea,Malaysia, UAE and the Philippines.
No Vietnamese workers working abroad have caught COVID-19 so far.
The survey by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and SocialAffairs also stated that there have been no major changes in labour andemployment nationwide to date.
Most businesses, especially large enterprises, are still stablewith normal operation. There is not yet a risk of a labour shortage, said theministry./.
