Bracing for the first-ever cyclone to hit Mumbai in living memory, people in India’s most populous metropolis stayed off the streets and scrambled to protect their homes before the torrential rains and gale-force winds struck. Authorities were working until late in the night on Tuesday to move thousands of people away from the coast, amid fears that a city already ravaged by COVID-19 infections could see its healthcare system further overwhelmed. “We have seen rains, but we have never seen a cyclone in the city. We don’t know what damage it will do,” Shantaram Terekar, who lives in a one-room hutment in the city told Reuters. Terekar said he had switched off electricity […]