Concern over the lives of thousands in the Bengal region, one of the world's poorest regions, as the corona epidemic spreads, a giant cyclone on its way to beaches • More than a million refugees are in danger
Storm clouds near the city of Calcutta in West Bengal // Photo: IP
If not enough, the Corona disease that paralyzes India and Bangladesh is now threatening to hit both countries in their weak regions, a particularly strong cyclone that has now strengthened in the Bay of Bengal for Category 4 and winds at 240 mph.
These are two countries accustomed to many natural disasters, but this time The combination of coping with the corona virus that strikes both India and Bangladesh, with India so far identified as one hundred thousand patients and in Bangladesh some 22,000, may be one cause too severe and very severe.
It should be noted that the cyclone currently defined as a typhoon writer by the name of Ampane is expected to weaken this Wednesday as it approaches the shore, but when the start is so high, it means strong winds, high winds, which will hit the Ganges River door, an area where people live. Indian is particularly weak and is naturally low in flood.
Impact on this area could cause the water level to rise about nine feet to the significance of this poor area and its residents who have nowhere to go. At the same time, the cyclone will hit the refugee camp of the Rohingya clan who fled the Myanmar genocide. This is the world's largest million-man refugee camp in the area called Cox Bazaar. This is in addition to the fact that Bangladesh as a country is also considered one of the poorest countries in the world.
In other words, the arrival of the cyclone at the moment, combined with the corona's closure, aimed at the particularly soft stomach of these two countries, is almost certainly a recipe for real humanitarian disaster.
The Indian coastal state of Odisha has already come into operation and has declared about 12 beaches as prohibited for bathing or zooming. The neighboring Indian state of West Bengal, which also includes Kolkata, one of the most populated cities in India with 4.4 million inhabitants, also declared an emergency and banned the approach of four beaches. The head of the Indian response to the NDRF disaster states, "We have deployed ten emergency teams in the area and about 20 additional teams are in the immediate situation."
In Bangladesh, the Cox Bazar Refugee Camp was the worst of it, when last week Corona's first camps were discovered. A UN official says that "this cyclone is a nightmare scenario." US relief worker Daniel F. Sullivan, who works in the camp, said "this is the way the sanctuary in the refugee camp is even worse and is expected to deteriorate with the arrival of the monsoon season."
