Cyclone Amban, the fiercest typhoon to hit Bangladesh and eastern India in more than two decades, has destroyed homes and a car wash, causing floods and killing more than 12 people.
On Thursday, the authorities began to inspect the damage after millions of people spent their nights in shelters with the passage of the hurricane, with winds of up to 165 km per hour, uprooted trees and poles.
In Bangladesh, officials announced that they were awaiting reports from the Cinderban region - which is listed on the World Heritage List of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), famous for its forests and endangered Bengal tigers - hardest hit by the cyclone.
"We are still not aware of the true picture of the damage. We are concerned about the fate of some wild animals. They can be washed away during the tidal wave caused by the typhoon," area official Mueen Adin Khan told the French press.
The evacuation of more than three million people from coastal towns has raised relief that it has contributed to reducing the number of casualties, but raises fears of the transmission of the emerging coronavirus "Covid-19" infection in overcrowded shelters.
The authorities of the two countries sent masks and fluids to cleanse the hands, but social separation is impossible due to the large number of families that have taken refuge in schools and government buildings.
Dead and victims
Hurricanes hit annually the Bay of Bengal. In 2007, behind the cyclone, more than 3,500 people will be killed in Bangladesh.
In India, the head of the West Bengal state government, Mamata Banerjee, put the death toll at between 10 and 12, although not all were confirmed immediately. And Bangladeshi officials announced that eight people, including a five-year-old boy and a 75-year-old, had been killed by trees and a volunteer drowned in the Red Crescent.
The fall of trees and pieces of cement uprooted by the violent winds have killed people in India.
The typhoon retreated as it headed to the coast of Bangladesh, but it caused torrential rains and strong winds in the Cox's Bazar region, home to a million Rohingya refugees who fled violence in Myanmar.
And Amban is the most powerful cyclone to form over the Bay of Bengal since 1999, accompanied by winds of 165 km per hour.
Hurricanes often hit the coast of Bangladesh - where thirty million people live - and eastern India. It has caused thousands of deaths in the past decades.
But the task this time is complicated by the spread of the emerging coronavirus, as population movements can help spread the epidemic.
For its part, India evacuated more than 650,000 people in West Bengal and Odisha.
Because of the emerging Coronavirus, the Indian authorities have used more shelters to avoid overcrowding and imposed the use of masks, but fear of corona infection has caused many people in vulnerable areas to stay in their homes despite the cyclone.