(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.