Overall Green Flood alert for Malaysia in Malaysia from 01 Jan 2022 01:00 UTC to 03 Jan 2022 01:00 UTC

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Overall Green alert Flood for Malaysia

in Malaysia

Event summary

Flood Malaysia can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID	FL 1101238
Death:	0
Displaced:	14216
Countries:	Malaysia
From - To	01 Jan - 03 Jan

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Malaysia, January 2022Further heavy rain fell in Malaysia in early January 2022 affecting Sabah Johor, Pahang, Melaka, Terengganu and Negeri Sembilan in particular. On 02 January NADMA said that 14,459 people were taking shelter at 191 evacuation centres. This event follows the severe flooding in the country in the seond parts of December 2021. Combining figures for the December and January floods, NADMA reported on 02 January that a total of 125,490 people had been displaced but 117,700 had already returned home. Fifty fatalities were reported (25 in Selangor, 21 in Pahang and 4 in Kelantan) and two were missing.Mon 3 Jan 2022Provided by Copernicus EMS GloFAS

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