With winds gusting up to 185 km per hour, the very severe cyclonic storm Tauktae made landfall on the Gujarat coast on Monday night.
Over 1.5 lakh people were evacuated from the low-lying coast areas and at least 17 Covid patients on ventilator support in the Porbandar Civil Hospital's ICU were shifted to other facilities.
54 teams of the NDRF and SDRF remain deployed in the region and the NDRF headquarters is closely monitoring the situation through its 24x7 control room.
11 diving teams have been kept on standby and 12 flood rescue and medical teams are also ready for immediate response.
The storm reached Gujarat after dumping heavy rains over Maharashtra on Monday morning. At least 6 people died in the Konkan region and three sailors were missing after two boats sank in the sea.