Four people were killed in Gujarat as cyclone Tauktae pounded parts of the state and left behind a trail of destruction along the western coast, officials said on Tuesday. The landfall process of the eye of the extremely severe cyclonic storm Tauktae, which hit the Gujarat coast in Saurashtra region between Diu and Una, ended around midnight, the IMD said. It crossed the Gujarat coast as an "extremely severe cyclonic storm" and gradually weakened.
Meanwhile, India has been registering a significant decline in the daily Covid-19 cases but has seen a sharp rise in deaths due to the infection. India's total coronavirus cases surged past the 25-million mark on Tuesday, boosted by 263,533 new Covid-19 cases over the past 24 hours, while deaths from Covid-19 rose by a record 4,329.
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