Geneva. .- The Office of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said today that about 600,000 people have been evacuated in the last three days in Japan, after the earthquake, the tsunami that followed and the current nuclear threat. According to latest figures, 380,000 people were evacuated from areas affected by both natural disasters, while 210,000 have been evacuated from the area of \u200b\u200b20 km around the Fukushima nuclear power plant where an explosion occurred after the earthquake.
The OCHA said the Japanese authorities' efforts to intensify with emergency support team of specialists to keep coming from different countries, while its scientists are working around the clock to cool the reactors at the Fukushima nuclear plant. At the same time, the government has mobilized 100,000 members of its defense troops and 190 aircraft and 45 boats, to assist with relief operations, which are very difficult due to continuing aftershocks (the earthquake), alerts tsunami, and fires.
According to the OCHA report, the Japanese government has confirmed that 2.6 million homes without electricity and 1.4 billion do not have water, while it is running out of gas in 3.2 million households, a situation that is particularly critical due to low temperatures in the country (about 1 degree Celsius last night).
For its part, the vast majority of hospitals have reached the edge of their ability to care for the wounded. 
The OCHA said the Japanese authorities' efforts to intensify with emergency support team of specialists to keep coming from different countries, while its scientists are working around the clock to cool the reactors at the Fukushima nuclear plant. At the same time, the government has mobilized 100,000 members of its defense troops and 190 aircraft and 45 boats, to assist with relief operations, which are very difficult due to continuing aftershocks (the earthquake), alerts tsunami, and fires.
According to the OCHA report, the Japanese government has confirmed that 2.6 million homes without electricity and 1.4 billion do not have water, while it is running out of gas in 3.2 million households, a situation that is particularly critical due to low temperatures in the country (about 1 degree Celsius last night).
For its part, the vast majority of hospitals have reached the edge of their ability to care for the wounded.
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