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    The document summarizes evacuations for Cyclone Amphan in India and Bangladesh in May 2020. Over 4.2 million people were evacuated from coastal areas in the two countries. India evacuated around 2 million people, primarily from West Bengal. Bangladesh evacuated around 2.2 million people by opening over 12,000 shelters across 19 coastal districts. Social distancing requirements during the COVID-19 pandemic reduced shelter capacity and made evacuations more complex.

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    Evacuations[edit]

    Amphan approaching East India and Bangladesh on 19 May

    The government of Odisha directed the magistrates of four districts on 15 May to establish shelter homes for
    possible evacuees.[67] Odisha Chief Secretary Asit Kumar Tripathy initially identified 403 possible cyclone shelters
    in areas potentially impacted by Amphan, though 105 served as temporary medical centres for quarantines
    associated with the concurrent COVID-19 pandemic.[29] Shelters could only be filled to one-third capacity to
    maintain social distancing guidelines due to the pandemic.[47][68] Social distancing restrictions in West Bengal
    reduced evacuation capacity in shelters from 500,000 people to 200,000 people.[69] The Kolkata Municipal
    Corporation located schools and community centres for possible use as temporary shelters to augment
    evacuation capacity.[70][71] At least 1,704 shelters were ultimately established in Odisha and more than 2,000 were
    used in West Bengal, including schools and public buildings.[72] Pandemic constraints on shelters in Bangladesh
    prompted deputy commissioners in 19 coastal districts to seize educational institutions and mosques for use as
    shelters.[73][74] More than 12,000 shelters were opened across Bangladesh, supplied with food and emergency
    cash from the Bangladeshi Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief and yielding capacity for 5.19 million
    evacuees.[75][76] There were 5,767 more shelters in Bangladesh for Amphan than for Cyclone Bulbul, which struck
    the country in November 2019, due in part to social distancing restrictions.[77]
    Approximately 4.2 million people were evacuated in coastal India and Bangladesh, with roughly 2 million from
    India and 2.2 million from Bangladesh. Most of the evacuations in India occurred in West Bengal.[78][79] Over a
    million people were expected to evacuate from areas near the Bangladesh–India border.[80] Around
    4,000 personnel from the SDRF oversaw evacuations in India.[81] Evacuations began on 17 May in Jagatsinghpur,
    beginning with the elderly and pregnant living in thatched homes.[82] Magistrates were directed to begin
    evacuating residents from vulnerable homes and low-lying areas in Odisha the following day.[83] The Odisha
    government took a more targeted evacuation approach for Amphan than in previous storms where more
    widespread evacuations were utilized.[84] Odisha had shelter capacity for up 1.1 million evacuees, though only
    10 percent was expected to be used.[85] Over 141,000 people were ultimately moved to shelters in coastal Odisha.
    [49]
     The government of West Bengal planned to evacuate 200,000 people from their homes by 18 May;[85] nearly
    300,000 people evacuated in total from the state, including 200,000 from North 24 Parganas district and more
    than 40,000 from Sagar Island.[86][87][22] The NDRF reported that over 500,000 people evacuated from Odisha and
    West Bengal.[88] Officials farther inland in Dhanbad and Bokaro Steel City, Jharkhand, were also instructed to
    move people from susceptible housing to safety.[89] Two million people were expected to evacuate from low-lying
    areas of Bangladesh on 19 May;[90] Enamur Rahman, the Minister of Disaster Management and Relief, stated that
    the evacuation for Amphan in Bangladesh was unprecedented in scale.[91] Trawlers were used to evacuate
    thousands from the sediment islands in the Ganges Delta to the Bangladeshi mainland.[92] Approximately
    50,000 people were evacuated from the islands of the Sundarbans.[68]

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