Medical resources, food and supplies to restore power are beginning to be transported by air to Mayotte this Sunday, the day after its passage, it is still impossible to draw up an overall assessment of the colossal damage caused by Cyclone Chido on Saturday. A first Civil Security plane carrying relief equipment landed on Sunday at 3:30 p.m. in Mayotte (1:30 p.m. Paris time) to bring aid to the small French archipelago.
This plane, a DASH, which took off from Reunion Island, was transporting three tonnes of equipment from the medical service, packages from the French Blood Establishment and 17 medical personnel, said the prefecture of the southern defense zone of the Indian Ocean.
Precarious housing, which concerns around a third of the archipelago's population estimated at 320,000 inhabitants, is “completely destroyed”, according to the resigning Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau, expected on site on Monday.
