At around 1 pm on Tuesday, the temperature on Cat Lai Overpass in Thu Duc City was roughly 40 degrees centigrade.
Environmental workers have to water trees on Pham Van Dong Street in Go Vap District to protect them from the hot weather.
Workers at a construction site at Thu Thiem Urban Area in Thu Duc City
Nguyen Van Linh, 65, in Thu Duc City who acts as a scrap collector around Thu Thiem Urban Area said that the weather made his work difficult.
Luu Phuong Truong, 60, a worker at Thu Thiem Urban Area, is taking a rest in his rented house.
Workers are speeding up the pace of a construction project in HCM City.
Children’s Hospital 2 are quite crowded these days due to the city’s rising number of Covid-19-infected children. Nhat Quoc from Phu Nhuan District and his wife took their one-year-old daughter to the hospital for the examination as she faced a high fever. The hot weather seemed to worsen the child’s condition.
Many people sheltered in the shade to take a break.
According to Le Dinh Quyet, deputy head of the Southern Hydro-Meteorological Station, the temperature of the city’s summer this year would be equal to the average level of many previous years. The hot weather will stop in May, earlier than previous years. However, from now until late April, the city would have many days with a UV index of up to 9-10, which will have a negative impact on people’s health.
