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Cyclone Nisarga: How covid-19 hit Mumbai is preparing for a stormy week

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With Cyclone Nisarga expected to make landfall on 3 June on the Maharashtra coast, pandemic-hit Mumbai is scrambling to put its defences in place There’s a cyclone brewing off the coast of Mumbai.

And it has everyone worried. On 31 May, a relief camp set up in Versova, in the city, for those rendered homeless by the covid-19 lockdown was dismantled.

Its residents—around 60 migrant workers from across India—were moved to a state-owned guest-house in Ghatkopar. “We were planning to anyway shift in the first week of June, ahead of the monsoon," says Abraham Mathai, former chairman of minorities commission of Maharashtra and the organizer of the camp. “But the cyclone warning made us do it immediately." ‘Nisarga’ is expected to intensify in

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