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Cyclone Nisarga, a threat to Mumbai's open air covid hospitals

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For Mumbai, it has been a never-ending series of troubles so far this year. This time around, it is the Cyclone Nisarga brewing off the Mumbai coast.

Nisarga, scheduled to make a landfall close to Mumbai on Wednesday, is a threat to the 1,000 bed open-air hospital for covid-19 patients at the Bandra-Kurla Complex and the 200-bed hospital at Maharashtra Nature Park, Dharavi.

The India Meteorological Department has warned Cyclone Nisarga could hit the Maharashtra-Goa coast as a severe cyclonic storm on the afternoon of 3 June.

The open-air covid-19 hospital, the first in the country, was set up in a fortnight by the MMRDA or Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority.

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