Track of Tropical Storm Rolly as of Monday night - 3 Nov 2020

MANILA, Philippines — Tropical Storm Rolly came closer to the western border of the Philippine area of responsibility on Monday night, according to the latest bulletin Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services (Pagasa).

Rolly was located at 365 kilometers west of Iba town in Zambales, moving west at a speed of 20 kilometers per hour (kph).  While it was still packing maximum sustained winds of 65 kph with a gust reaching up 80 kph, it was expected to weaken as a tropical depression over the West Philippine Sea.

Rolly no longer had a direct effect in the country, but it would combine with Tropical Storm Siony to intensify the northeasterly surface wind, which was expected to bring strong winds over Northern Luzon.

“The northeasterlies enhanced by Tropical Storms Rolly and Siony will bring strong to near gale conditions with higher gusts over Batanes, Babuyan Islands, and the northern portions of Cagayan and Ilocos Norte,” Pagasa said.

This would cause rough to very rough seas over the entire seaboards of Northern Luzon and the western seaboard of Central Luzon, prompting Pagasa to issue a gale warning.

According to earlier forecasts, Siony was moving erratically. Pagasa would keep a close eye on it as its cone of probability was wide, meaning it had a wide range of possible track  — extending from extreme Northern Luzon down to Central Luzon.

Siony is expected to stay almost stationary — moving north then shifting to the east by Tuesday, turning south on Wednesday, and completing a loop by moving southeast before Thursday.

However, from there, the tropical storm may lurk north toward the extreme Northern Luzon, or as far down south toward Central Luzon.

As of Monday afternoon, Siony had maximum sustained winds of 65 kph with a gustiness reaching up to 80 kph.

“The movement of Tropical Storm Siony would be erratic. It will stay in the middle of the Philippine Sea for the next two days and then it may possibly make a loop due to two high pressure areas pushing it away,” weather specialist Ariel Rojas said earlier in Filipino.

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GETTING READY Residents from Legazpi City, Albay province prepare and evacuate before Typhoon Rolly enters the Bicol region. Photos taken on October 31, 2020, Saturday. MARK ALVIC ESPLANA / INQURER SOUTHERN LUZON

Residents of Legazpi City, Albay province evacuate before Typhoon Rolly enters the Bicol Region. This photo was taken on Saturday, Oct. 31, 2020. (Photo by MARK ALVIC ESPLANA / Inquirer Southern Luzon)

MANILA, Philippines —  Thousands of children in cramped evacuation centers set up due to  Super Typhoon Rolly may be facing a higher risk of COVID-19 infection, advocate group Save the Children Philippines said in a statement issued on Monday.

“We call on the local government to urgently put in place proper health protocols to protect people sheltering in evacuation centers from life-threatening diseases including COVID-19,” Alberto Muyot, chief executive officer of the group, said.

“They must also ensure children and their families staying in evacuation centers are provided with hygiene essentials, nutritious food and clean water,” he added.

For its part, Save the Children vowed to deploy aid workers and distribute basic life-saving hygiene kits and emergency supplies to the worst-affected parts of Luzon island as soon as possible.

The typhoon, internationally known as Goni, battered part of Luzon, particularly the Bicol Region — where it made its first landfall in Catanduanes on Sunday — and Southern Luzon over the weekend.

It brought catastrophic winds, storm surges, and widespread flooding. The extent of the damage in coastal areas is still unknown, but it is feared to have had a high humanitarian impact.

Save the Children also urged the government to look into other needs of children and their parents — such as providing breast milk to babies and addressing the psychosocial needs of the evacuees.

During calamities like typhoons, health authorities are always on the watch for possible outbreaks of disease in typically crowded evacuation centers. But the COVID-19 pandemic — which has so far infected over 300,000 individuals and killed over 7,000 others in the Philippines — may make it more difficult to ensure the health of evacuees.

Earlier,  authorities reported that 87,000 families had been evacuated in preparation for the landfall of the typhoon, but the numbers had since increased.

On Monday, an additional 2,298 cases brought the total confirmed COVID-19 infections nationwide to 385,400, of which 29,301 are considered active cases. Of the total number of patients, 348,830 have recovered and 7,269 have died.

 —With a report from Miggy Dumlao

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MANILA, Philippines — The national government has P3.622 billion in calamity funds, some of which may be used to help those affected by Super Typhoon Rolly, Budget Secretary Wendel Avisado assured President Rodrigo Duterte in a high-level briefing on Monday.

Avisado explained that the money was the remainder of the budget of the National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office (NDRRMO) — originally amounting to a P16-billion in calamity fund and later augmented with P5 billion under the Bayanihan to Recover as One Act, or Bayanihan 2.

Bayanihan 2 was intended as a stimulus fund for the country as it battles the COVID-19 pandemic.

Avisado noted that a lot of people had been asking if the government had money to deal with the latest calamity.

Duterte praised him for being “transparent” by revealing how much was left of the calamity fund. It was important for people to know that there was money for them and that it would be used properly.

He then expressed confidence that the people would understand that the government “stretching to the limit” its money, considering that it was also fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.

“We have been transparent, that’s good[…] for as long as we spend it for the purpose which it was intended to be appropriated,” Duterte added.

Super Typhoon Rolly, which battered the Bicol Region and Southern Luzon over the weekend, was not the first natural calamity to strike the Philippines recently.  Late into 2019, a series of earthquakes rocked Mindanao. Then last  Jan. 13, Taal Volcano erupted, affecting thousands of residents, farmlands, and tourism establishments.

In light of these events, some lawmakers questioned why the calamity fund had been cut down, pointing out that the Philippines had long been vulnerable to natural disasters, particularly typhoons and earthquakes due to its being in the Pacific ring of fire.

Rolly is not also the first destructive weather disturbance to hit the country.  In October, Bicol and other parts of Luzon also endured Tropical Depression Ofel, shortly followed by Tropical Storm Pepito that moved across Aurora and the rest of Central Luzon.

Then Typhoon Quinta barreled through Southern Luzon, again affecting Bicol, days before Rolly entered the Philippine area of responsibility.

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