Many people had also refused to leave their homes and be moved to shelters for fear of contracting the virus.“Earlier we had around 5,000 cyclone centres and this time we will have more than 12,000: this is how we will maintain social distancing in the shelters,” said Enamur Rahman, Bangladesh’s junior disaster management minister. The Indian navy was put on high alert to be ready to offer humanitarian assistance to those caught up in Cyclone Amphan, which is only the second “super-cyclone” to form in the Bay of Bengal since records began.The director general of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), SN Pradhan, said the situation was “fast-transforming” as the cyclone moved across West Bengal and Odisha.“It is another form of new normal, we have to handle disasters considering the pandemic too. New Delhi: Cyclone Amphan turned in to a "super cyclonic storm" on Monday morning, the weather office said, hours after it intensified in to an "extremely severe cyclonic storm". “Super Cyclone Amphan intensified very rapidly in the 24 hours between evening of May 17 and May 18.
If it lands in the low-lying delta, there is also the potential for major storm surges, perhaps even as high as 30 feet (9 meters).Natural disasters are tragically common in this part of the world, but this could be the first powerful storm ever to hit India and Bangladesh amidAs of Monday morning, Bangladesh had identified at least 22,268 Covid-19 cases and 328 virus-related deaths, while India had counted at least 96,169 patients and 3,029 fatalities, according to the global list compiled by Johns Hopkins University. Eight years earlier, a typhoon, tornadoes and flooding killed 139,000 in Bangladesh.Bangladesh authorities fear Amphan will be the most powerful storm since Cyclone Sidr Although outside the predicted direct path of the storm, there are fears for the safety of almost a million Rohingya refugees from Myanmar in south-eastern Bangladesh – most living in vast camps and housed in flimsy makeshift shacks.US study identifies statistically significant trend in line with climate scientists’ predictionsWest Bengal, Odisha and coastal areas of Bangladesh on high alert for super-cyclone
Amphan is forecast to make landfall near poor, densely populated areas with notoriously unreliable infrastructure. The first five deaths from the cyclone – three in the Indian state of West Bengal and two in neighbouring Bangladesh, were reported on Wednesday afternoon.More than 2 million people were evacuated from their homes in Bangladesh, and a further half a million people in West Bengal and Odisha were moved from vulnerable low-lying areas to shelters.
Though there have been two or three super cylones in the past, Super Cyclone Amphan is only the second after the Odisha Super Cyclone of 1999 to form in the North Indian Ocean. Districts in West Bengal, including east and west Mednipore, south and north 24 Parganas, Howrah, Hoogli and Kolkata would be affected severely,” he said.This super cyclone, which was tracing a path parallel to the Odisha coast, will also bring heavy to very heavy rainfall over districts of Jagatsinghpur, Balasore, Kendrapara, Bhadrak and Mayurbhanj along coastal Odisha on Monday and Tuesday.The eye of the super cyclone, measuring up to 120 km, is expected to cross the Sundarbans in West Bengal in less than 48 hours, Mohapatra said.“We expect tidal waves as high as 4 to 6 metres, as tall as a two storied building at landfall.
© 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. The Catholic Relief Services aid group said people faced “an impossible choice” of braving the cyclone by staying put, or risking coronavirus infection in a shelter.Amnesty International urged governments to keep watch for up to 1,000 Rohingya refugees who may be stranded at sea in makeshift vessels. Sulata Munda, a villager in Bangladesh on the edge of the Sundarbans, said she and fellow villagers decided not to go to a shelter. 5 Atlantic HurricaneA group of South Africans were stuck in China. In view of the prevailing Covid-19 scenario, all teams are equipped with PPE [personal protective equipment],” said Pradhan.Surging waters broke through embankments surrounding an island in Bangladesh’s Noakhali district, destroying more than 500 homes, local official Rezaul Karim said. The last super cyclone in 1999 left nearly 10,000 dead in India's Odisha state, eight years after a typhoon, tornadoes and flooding killed 139,000 in Bangladesh. Though there have been two or three super cylones in the past, Super Cyclone Amphan is only the second after the Odisha Super Cyclone of 1999 to form in the North Indian Ocean. It brought a storm surge - a wall of ocean water that is often one of the main killers in major weather systems - that roared inland.Anwar Hossain Howlader, an official in the Khulna coastal district of Bangladesh, said 10ft surge had destroyed embankments protecting villages despite locals toiling through the night.
Thousands of trees have been uprooted,' he said. 'We fear the cyclone but we also fear the coronavirus,' the mother of four said. SN Pradhan, the director general of India's National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), said authorities are deploying 10 teams to Odisha and seven to West Bengal to start evacuation efforts. 'Floodwaters lash against a home and nearby boats in Bagerhat in Bangladesh, as the cyclone killed dozens of people due to the collapse of walls, drowning and falling treesPeople clean up damage in Kolkata today where trees had fallen on the road - although officials say that clean-up operations will be made harder by the coronavirus pandemic Two people wearing masks try to take shelter in India yesterday as the floods and rain battered the subcontinent People walk past a fallen tree branch in the middle of a road in Kolkata today, as rescuers begin the clean-up after the storm broke through flood defences At the village of Purba Durgabati in Satkhira district, hundreds of villagers spent the night trying to mend a breach in the embankment that protected several villages from the Kholpetua river.But the surge unleashed by the cyclone washed away more than a mile of the embankment, which also doubled as a village road. Residents awoke to flooded streets with some cars window-deep in water and the airport flooded by the storm surge. 'We still haven't got the actual picture of the damage,' forest chief Moyeen Uddin Khan said. Covering an area of 700 km and measuring 15 km in height, Super Cyclone Amphan is not only massive in size but also moving at a very high speed of 220-230 kmph …
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