India began evacuating people from low-lying areas in and around Mumbai ahead of a cyclone that is expected to hit the country’s west coast on Wednesday, officials said.
A man waves to his relative inside a bus before it leaves carrying coronavirus disease patients as they were evacuated from a makeshift hospital to other hospitals before the arrival of cyclone Nisarga, in Mumbai, India, June 2, 2020.
India’s most populous city has more than 53,000 cases of COVID-19 infection, with more than 1,600 deaths. The cyclone designated Nisarga could make landfall between north Maharashtra and the adjoining south Gujarat coast, with winds gusting up to 120 km per hour , the equivalent of a category 1 hurricane, the IMD said.
Maharashtra, of which Mumbai is the capital, has been moving people living in slums and makeshift houses in the poorer sections of the state to places of shelter, the state’s chief minister, Uddhav Thackeray, said.
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