Tropical Cyclone Yaas is approaching landfall on India 01:49 (CNN)Another tropical cyclone, this one named Yaas, will make landfall in India in less than 24 hours, this time in the northeastern part of the country.
Last week, Tropical Cyclone Tauktae hit northwestern India, bringing flooding rains and storm surge to areas including Mumbai. Tauktae was the strongest storm to ever make landfall on the western coast of India, killing over 100 people.
Ahead of Yaas, West Bengal intends to evacuate at least 1 million people, the chief minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee said Monday at a news conference. At least 19,000 people had been evacuated as of Monday from low-lying areas in India s Odisha state, its additional relief commissioner Kamal Mishra said.
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The White House expects the US will reach a new milestone when it comes to vaccinations today with 50% of adults now fully vaccinated. Officials are expected to tout the numbers during today's coronavirus briefing at 1:30 p.m. ET, CNN has learned.
Delhi leader says Indian government vaccine procurement policies are a joke
From CNN’s Esha Mitra in New Delhi and CNN’s Amanda Sealy
Delhi’s deputy chief minister said the Indian central government s vaccine rollout is “a joke, saying international companies including Pfizer have declined their separate requests for vaccines.
“What kind of a joke is being made of vaccines,” Delhi’s deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia said in an online address Monday, while discussing the central government s efforts at vaccine procurement and distribution.
“If we ask the central government for vaccines from Indian companies, they say they will give us only 4 lakh (400,000 doses),” Sisodia said. The population of Delhi was more than 11 million in the last census in 2011.
Fewer than half of Americans are now social distancing, poll finds
From CNN s Naomi Thomas
People walk on the Coney Island beach boardwalk in New York City on May 19. Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images
Fewer than half of Americans social distanced in the last week the first time the percent has gone below 50% since the Axios-Ipsos poll began. The new poll data finds that 44% of Americans social distanced last week, down 12 percentage points from two weeks ago.
The poll, published Tuesday, was conducted May 21 to 24 and made up of a nationally representative sample of 1,102 US adults.
Those over the age of 50 and the vaccinated are the groups where some of the biggest changes are taking place in, but “regardless of gender, region of the country, partisanship, or race, people are socially distancing less than before.”