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MANILA, Philippines (AP) – A super typhoon hit the east of the Philippines with “catastrophic maximum winds” in the early hours of Sunday morning and about one million more people were evacuated on the planned road, adding in the capital where it closed the main foreign airport, authorities said.
Typhoon Goni hit the coast of the island province of Catanduanes at dawn with sustained winds of 225 kilometers (140 miles) consistent with the hour and gusts of 280 km/h (174 mph). Blowing west into densely populated areas, adding Manila, and rainy provinces that were still recovering from a typhoon that hit a week ago and killed at least 22 people, the Philippine weather firm said.
“In the next 12 hours, you will feel catastrophic maximum winds and heavy torrential rains related to the dominance of the eye wall and the internal rain bands of the area,” the firm said in an urgent notice.
He said Catanduanes and four other provinces would be the first to be affected, adding that Albay, where tens of thousands of villagers have been brought to safety, especially near the active Mayon volcano, where landslides have caused death beyond typhoons. warned of probably landslides, large floods, typhoon surges of more than five meters (16 feet) and fierce winds that can take the huts away.
One of the world’s toughest typhoons this year, Goni recalled Typhoon Haiyan, who left more than 7,300 people dead and missing, swept away entire villages, dragged ships inland and moved more than five million people in November 2013 in the central Philippines.
Ricardo Jalad, who heads the government crisis reaction agency, said nearly one million more people were preemptively transferred to emergency shelters, basically schools and government buildings, and warned of typhoon surges that could flood coastal villages, especially in Manila Bay.
“There are many other people in vulnerable areas,” Jalad said at a video press conference saturday.
Meteorologists said the typhoon’s eye could hit or rub the city of Manila, the densely populated capital region with more than thirteen million people, from Sunday night to Monday morning and asked the public to prepare for the worst. it can weaken significantly after hitting the mountainous diversity of the Sierra Madre and then crossing the main island north of Luzon into the South China Sea.
Manila’s main airport closed 24 hours from Sunday to Monday and airlines cancelled dozens of domestic and foreign flights, while military and national police, as well as coastguards and firefighters, were put on alert.
About 1,000 PATIENTS with COVID-19 have been transferred to hospitals and hotels from quarantine and tent remedy centres in the capital and northern province of Bulacan, Jalad said. More emergency shelters would be opened than before to avoid congestion that can temporarily cause infections. .
Preparations for the war typhoon will put greater pressure on government resources, which have been exhausted with months of coronavirus outbreaks that led the government to establish isolation and rehabilitation centres when hospitals have been hit and to provide assistance to more than 20 million deficient people. Filipinos.
The Philippines has reported more than 380,000 cases of COVID-19, at the time in Southeast Asia, with 7221 deaths.
Displaced villagers may have to stay longer in evacuation centers, even after Goni left on Tuesday due to another typhoon that is brewing in the Pacific and will also affect the Philippines within a few days, Jalad said.
The Philippines is hit by about 20 typhoons and storms a year. It is also found in the so-called Pacific “Ring of Fire”, a seismically active region around the Pacific where earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are not unusual and make the southeast impoverished. Asian country of more than one hundred million people, one of the most prone to disasters in the world.
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Associated Press Aaron Favila and Joeal Calupitan contributed to the report.