Vietnam typhoon death toll rises to 233 as more bodies are recovered from areas hit by landslides and flash floods

Even before the typhoon, the UN estimated 18.6 million people out of a total population of 55 million needed humanitarian assistance.

Manufacturers say that while many factories acted early to minimize damage, roughly 10 percent of buildings in Haiphong are deeply damaged.

Vietnam is preparing for more flooding with a tropical depression forecast to strengthen into a storm as it heads to its central coast, days after typhoon Yagi set off floods and landslides that killed more than 290 people in the north.

Vietnam has postponed its planned 2G shutdown until next month following the impact of Typhoon Yagi. The switch-off had been set to take place by September 16 on land, however, the country's Ministry of Information and Communications has delayed the date until October 15 as more than three million people in the country are using the service.