Heavy rain raises flood alert levels for cities on Yangtze River

Arirang News 2020-07-07

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An intense month-long period of heavy rain has led to authorities in China raising flood alert levels around the Yangtze River,... as well as areas adjacent to the Yalu River.
This includes Wuhan,... the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic,... as torrential rain and thunderstorms battered the area,... including the Yangtze River on which it sits.
Wuhan has raised its emergency flood response level from two to three,... the second highest on its four-tier scale.
Officials say water levels have exceeded warning levels at more than 50 locations.
The heavy downpours have left at least one hundred dead or missing,... with 20 million evacuated from their homes.

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