CPI in July: Medical exprenses plunged

Notably, health care services saw a sharp decrease of 7.5%, resulting in a slight decrease of the Consumer Price Index.

Meanwhile, there were factors hampering a further drop in CPI, including the increase of pork prices by 3.02 per cent from June and a gas price hike of 0.24 per cent following the increase in the world market.

The GSO said that core inflation, which is the CPI excluding grain food, fresh foodstuffs, energy, and the State-managed goods of health care and educational services, increased 0.15 per cent in July month-on-month and 1.41 per cent year on year.