Threat of disease stalks cyclone-hit Fijian islands
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Destruction reported as Cyclone Yasa slams into Fiji
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(Photo : Unsplash) At least four people, including a baby three months old, died in Cyclone Yasa, a category five storm that brought devastation in Vanua Levu, the second largest island of the nation Fiji, last Thursday evening.
In anticipation of the storm, Fiji s government issued a nationwide emergency and also implemented a curfew. Everyone was required to be inside overnight for 14 hours last Thursday. It was estimated that 95 percent of the population of the country, or 850,000, were going to be affected directly by Yasa.
According to the country s office of disaster management, 23,479 looked for overnight shelter in 457 evacuation centers last Thursday up to the morning of Friday. Thousands of others took shelter in church halls and caves.
Fiji super cyclone sparks disease fears
World
December 21, 2020
SUVA, Fiji: Disease threatens to worsen an already desperate situation in Fiji, an official warned on Sunday, where thousands of lives have been devastated in the wake of the deadly super cyclone Yasa.
Agencies rushed food and clean water to areas where the storm smashed into the northern islands of the South Pacific nation on Thursday night, forcing more than 23,000 people to flee their homes.
Four people died and entire villages were wiped out, with crops and livestock destroyed. Agriculture officials are being sent to hard-hit areas to help farmers dispose of dead livestock to reduce the risk of disease, National Disaster Management Office director Vasiti Soko said.