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Un ciclón azota a Mumbai, ya asolada por el Covid

By Jordi Bou

June 3, 2020 - El primer ciclón que golpea la capital financiera de India en 70 años ha avivado los temores de que la ciudad, que ya lucha contra las infecciones de Covid-19, pueda ver más abrumado su sistema de salud.

Cyclone Nisarga made landfall Wednesday south of India's financial capital of Mumbai, with a storm surge threatening to flood beaches and low-lying slums as city authorities struggled to contain the coronavirus pandemic.

In the state capital Mumbai, the home of Bollywood, India's largest stock exchange and more than 20 million residents, high winds whipped skyscrapers and ripped apart shanty houses near the beach.

Some 100,000 people were evacuated from low-lying areas in Maharashtra and neighboring Gujarat, according to the Press Trust of India news agency. Both states are already among the hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic.

Nisarga comes just two weeks after Cyclone Amphan tore through the Bay of Bengal on India’s east coast and battered West Bengal state, killing more than 100 people in India and neighbouring Bangladesh.

Such storms are less common in the Arabian Sea than on India's east coast, usually form later in the year and do so over a longer period. But Nisarga may represent the ways in which the warming of oceans due to climate change is already altering lives, experts said.

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PUBLISHED: 03/06/2020; STORY: Graphic News
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