Residents trying to salvage belongings amongst their houses destroyed at the height of Typhoon Vongfong in San Policarpo town, Eastern Samar province on Friday (May 15), a day after the typhoon hit the town. Typhoon Vongfong has dumped heavy rains and torn off roofs since it roared ashore on central Samar island on May 14, with hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people in its path on the coast or in flimsy homes. - AFP
MANILA: Tens of thousands of people were forced into cramped shelters by the powerful storm pounding the Philippines on Friday (May 15), making social distancing nearly impossible as the nation battles the Covid-19 (coronavirus) pandemic.
Typhoon Vongfong flattened flimsy coastal homes when it roared ashore on central Samar island on Thursday, but then weakened into a severe tropical storm on its path north to the capital Manila.
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