Mamata: Amphan directly hit 70% of Bengal population

KOLKATA: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday said the state has suffered 10 times more losses than ~1,000 crore advance relief package that PM Narendra Modi announced during his visit on Friday even as her ministers and state officials said it would take at least a week to prepare reports on the damage cyclone Amphan has caused.

Banerjee said 60 million people were directly affected. “More than 70% of the population is directly affected and 30% indirectly,” she said.