Many localities allow students to temporarily stop going to school to avoid storm Wipha.

The Hai Phong Department of Education and Training has just issued a document directing and requesting schools to temporarily suspend student activities (including summer activities, cultural review, life skills, swimming, extracurricular activities...) during the time of storm Wipha and widespread heavy rain.

The Department requires schools to proactively adjust their schedules to ensure absolute safety for students, and recommends that parents keep their children at home and avoid traveling during dangerous weather conditions. For facilities that organize boarding and semi-boarding, the Hai Phong Department of Education and Training requires them to prepare plans to ensure absolute safety for students in all situations.

Thanh Hoa Department of Education and Training also requested its affiliated units to urgently deploy measures to respond to storm Wipha. Accordingly, the Department requested educational institutions to proactively develop plans to protect people and property, especially moving equipment, machinery, and tables and chairs to safe places to minimize damage caused by storms and rains.

Schools are also required to be on duty 24/7, closely monitor weather conditions and coordinate closely with local authorities to promptly handle emergency situations.

Many localities have allowed students to stay home from school to avoid storm Wipha. (Illustration photo)

In Hanoi, many schools sent out notices asking parents to pick up students early this afternoon, July 21, or to temporarily suspend activities to ensure the safety of teachers and students.

In a notice sent to class groups, the Archimedes education system also allowed parents to pick up their preschool children early from 1 p.m. today. At the secondary school level, the school has temporarily postponed summer activities and experiences due to unfavorable weather conditions and to ensure student safety.

FPT Primary and Secondary School will close from Monday, July 21. The school will continuously update the school's operations in the following days and will send notices about the return to school schedule through official channels, based on weather developments and instructions from authorities.

At the university level, the Board of Directors of Hanoi University of Science and Technology has directed that all theoretical and practical classes according to the face-to-face learning plan will be switched to online learning, experimental and practical classes will be temporarily suspended, and the staff in charge will proactively arrange and organize make-up classes at a suitable time. The time of application is from Monday afternoon, July 21 to Tuesday, July 22.

To ensure the safety of lecturers and students, the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam also announced that all summer classes on July 21-22 will be switched to online learning. From July 23, the school's training department will monitor the situation and make an official announcement as soon as possible.

The National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting said that at 12:00 on July 21, the center of storm No. 3 Wipha was about 140km from Quang Ninh, about 280km east of Hai Phong, about 300km from Hung Yen, and about 330km east-northeast of Ninh Binh.
At this time, the storm tends to strengthen again, the strongest wind near the storm center is level 9-10 (75-102 km/h), gusting to level 12.
It is forecasted that in the next 12 hours, the storm will continue to move West-Southwest, 10-15km/h and is likely to strengthen. By 10pm tonight, the storm's center will still be in the Gulf of Tonkin with an intensity of level 10-11, gusting to level 14.
At 10:00 a.m. on July 22, the storm center was over the Hai Phong - Thanh Hoa sea area with an intensity of level 10-11, gusting to level 14. At around 10:00 a.m. on July 23, the storm weakened into a low pressure area over the mainland of Upper Laos.

Kim Anh

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