( Aljazeera ) -More than 800,000 people have been evacuated in China as tropical storm Krosa heads towards its southeast coast after leaving five people dead in Taiwan.
Krosa weakened from a typhoon after leaving Taiwan on Sunday, where its heavy rains caused power outages to about two million homes and disrupted air and sea traffic.
China's flood control office expected Krosa to hit China's Zhejiang and northern Fujian provinces late on Sunday.
Xinhua , the state-run news agency, said authorities in Zhejiang evacuated about 837,000 people from the coastal region, more than 500,000 of them tourists.
More than 32,000 boats were recalled by late on Saturday as fishermen were ordered back into port and tourist activities were cancelled in Zhejiang , Xinhua said.
Vacations for flood-control workers were cancelled in Shanghai, where the Special Olympics and the Chinese Grand Prix were under way, and plans to drain competition sites were being drafted.
A spokesman for Taiwan's central weather bureau said: "The power of Krosa ... has been reduced to a tropical storm after it made landfall on the northeastern tip of the island."