Cyclone Amphan: Measures taken till now and guidelines to follow

West Bengal and Odisha are bracing up to fight against cyclone 'Amphan' even as the states wage a war against COVID-19. While NDRF teams have been deployed, the states are making arrangements for shelters keeping social distancing into consideration.

New Delhi: With cyclonic storm 'Amphan' likely to intensify into a super cyclone by Monday evening and make landfall on Wednesday with a wind speed of up to 185 km per hour, Odisha and West Bengal are on their toes, making arrangements to deal with the storm.

Measures taken till now and guidelines to follow

At the same time, the IMD issued a heavy rainfall warning for Odisha, West Bengal, Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim, Assam and Meghalaya till May 21 in the light of the cyclone.

The IMD said that Amphan is likely to cross West Bengal-Bangladesh coasts between Sagar Islands in West Bengal and Hatiya islands in Bangladesh between afternoon and evening of May 20 as a very severe cyclonic storm.