Watch: Tamil Nadu, Puducherry brace for Cyclone Nivar with Covid protocols

Cyclone Nivar is likely to intensify into a very severe cyclonic storm and cross the coast between Tamil Nadu and Puducherry before dawn on Thursday.

IMD said Nivar would cross over betwen Karaikal and Mamallapuram during the midnight of November 25 and early hours of 26 November.

Puducherry CM V Narayanasamy said that they have taken all precautions and people living in low lying areas have been shifted to relief camps.

He further added that all Covid protocols are being followed at the relief camps.

Additional Secretary of the Tamil Nadu government said that they have put all precautionary measures in place.

The Tamil Nadu government appealed to people living in coastal districts to not venture out of their homes and requested those living in low lying areas to reach the cyclone shelters in their respective regions.

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