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Haitang blows itself out after killing 3
By Huo Yongzhe in Shanghai and Shao Xiaoyi in Hangzhou (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-07-21 06:10
As the threat from Typhoon Haitang abated yesterday, the issue of sheltering from the storm was replaced by dealing with the resulting floods, preventing disease and repairing damage.
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| Chinese soldiers help evacuate local residents from their submerged houses in Shuitou township of Wenzhou city in eastern China's Zhejiang province July 20, 2005. [newsphoto] |
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Some of the 863,000 people in East China's Zhejiang and Fujian provinces who had fled began to return home yesterday after the once-howling typhoon limped into neighbouring Jiangxi Province.
Two emergency teams arrived in Wenzhou and Lishui, two of the worst-hit areas, to combat disease, according to officials from the Provincial Bureau of Public Health.
"The floods brought by the heavy rain make disease prevention in the aftermath extremely important," said Yan Dehua, director of the Emergency Division of the Zhejiang Bureau of Public Health.
Tons of bleach and disinfectant were delivered to local residents, Yan added.
Necessities for everyday life including more than 16,000 boxes of biscuits and instant noodles, 750 tons of cooking oil and 7,300 tons of rice were also sent to Wenzhou and Taizhou, according to reports from local civil affairs bureaux.
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