The need to evacuate the coastal regions in Cyclone Amphan's path has complicated the official response to still another catastrophe unfolding in India and Bangladesh: the coronavirus pandemic.
A man protects himself from the driving rain with a plastic sheet Wednesday in the eastern Indian state of Odisha. Officials in India and Bangladesh moved more than 2 million people into shelters as Cyclone Amphan bore down on the border regions.A man protects himself from the driving rain with a plastic sheet Wednesday in the eastern Indian state of Odisha. Officials in India and Bangladesh moved more than 2 million people into shelters as Cyclone Amphan bore down on the border regions.
"There was some resistance for the evacuation effort because of the fear of COVID-19," Mishra explained."But late last evening people realized they need to be safe, and therefore they started moving voluntarily into the cyclone shelters." In Bangladesh, government officials were able to move less than half the 5 million people they had intended to place in shelters before the storm's arrival, according to Kaiser Rejve, who works as humanitarian and resilience director for the international aid group"A lot of stress is already ongoing. You know, the last two months, during the lockdown situation, poor people have already been hard hit. Their income is reduced," Rejve said from the capital, Dhaka.
What's more, it's also Ramadan, during which Muslims observing the holiday do not eat or drink during daylight hours. Bangladesh is a majority-Muslim country, and many people are fasting. Meanwhile, there are also fears that a storm surge as large as the one caused by Amphan — which could rise as high as
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