This was reported by The Washington Post with reference to the Minister of Health of the Bahamas, Duane Sands.

Five dead were previously reported.

US leader Donald Trump has declared a state of emergency in North Carolina in connection with this hurricane.

The head of the climatology laboratory of the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladimir Semenov, in an interview with Inforeactor, assessed the situation with Hurricane Dorian in the USA.