The death toll from the impact of Hurricane Freddy in Malawi rose from 507 to 511. approve office United Nations for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in a statement to EFE this Friday. Something More than 563,000 people were displaced So far and 576 camps residing, that’s an increase of 10,000 compared to the UN agency’s latest bulletin last Wednesday.
Also, at least 533 people follow missing, “Although the widespread rains have stopped, local emergencies continue to occur,” OCHA warned. The hurricane made landfall in the country’s Southern Region on March 12 and left Malawian territory on March 17.
The new figures bring the total number of deaths caused by the cyclone in South Africa to more than 680.Also after hitting Mozambique And Madagascar in the last weeks. Malawi President Lazarus ChakweraHe described the hurricane before Parliament last Wednesday as “the most devastating disaster” the country has experienced.
Freddy assembled the tomb health crisis in Malawifacing one year worst cholera epidemic in historyWith more than 55,200 cases, including 1,689 deaths Malawi Ministry of Health. Freddy is one of the longest-lived cyclones with the longest orbit in recent decades, having traveled more than 10,000 kilometers since it formed in northern Australia on February 4 and crossed the entire Indian Ocean to southern Africa.
At least 161 people lost their lives after the hurricane, which made its first impact in Mozambique on February 24 and hit land again on March 11. In Madagascar, the hurricane, which hit the east coast for the first time on February 21, returned to the island on March 5, causing 17 deaths. As the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reported, Freddy could have broken the 1994 record for Hurricane John-Typhoon duration of 31 days.