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Philippines evacuates hundreds of thousands as typhoon makes landfall

Published 05/14/2020, 03:32 PM
Updated 05/14/2020, 03:40 PM
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MANILA, May 14 (Reuters) - Philippine authorities started
moving 200,000 people away from their homes in coastal and
mountainous areas because of fears of flooding and landslides as
a typhoon made landfall on Thursday, disaster officials said.
Typhoon Vongfong, the first to hit the country this year,
slammed into the eastern Philippines packing winds of 155 kph
and gusts of up to 190 kph, the state weather bureau said.
Social distancing measures to curb the spread of the novel
coronavirus are likely to complicate efforts to move thousands
of people into evacuation centres, such as classrooms and school
gymnasiums.
Provincial disaster officials said they had asked the
education department for more schools they could use as
temporary shelters.
The Philippines has reported more than 11,000 cases of the
new coronavirus, most in the capital Manila, and more than 700
deaths.
Authorities told people in areas in the path of the Category
2 typhoon to brace for intense rain and to be on alert for
landslides, storm surges and floods.
An average of 20 typhoons a year hit the Philippines, an
archipelago of more than 7,000 islands.

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