Have a confidential tip for our reporters? Goni, known as Rolly in the Philippines, made landfall on Sunday on Catanduanes Island in the country’s east, bringing violent winds and extensive flooding. Typhoon Vongfong, which was packing maximum sustained winds of 93 miles per hour and gusts of up to 115 mph, was forecast to blow northwestward and barrel across densely populated eastern provinces and cities before exiting in the north Sunday.

Metropolitan Manila will not be hit directly by the storm but may be lashed by strong winds.

It is the first named storm of the 2020 season in the West Pacific. Updates with storm making a landfall past noon local time. Typhoon Vongfong slammed into the Philippines after authorities evacuated tens of thousands of people while trying to avoid the risks of overcrowding. Typhoon Vongfong has made landfall in the Philippines, forcing the evacuation of tens of thousands of people in a country under lockdown amid the coronavirus pandemic. The name of the storm, Vongfong, is derived from the term for wasp in Cantonese.

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All emergency shelters have been turned into quarantine facilities with medical equipment in case of outbreaks but may have to be rearranged back into evacuation centres if large numbers of people need shelter, Evardone told the Associated Press. Weather officials said the storm gathered force on Thursday, making landfall in San Policarpo, a city of more than 14,000 people in northeastern Samar Island.

Much of Luzon remains on lockdown because of the coronavirus epidemic, which could complicate emergency efforts should the storm strike the island with particular force. The evacuation of at least 450,000 people and early response planning helped avoid a worse outcome, but aid groups warn that the combined hit from a barrage of recent storms and the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic will test communities for months to come. All emergency shelters have been turned into quarantine facilities with medical equipment in case of outbreaks but may have to be rearranged back into evacuation centers if large numbers of people need shelter, Evardone told The AP. Typhoon Vongfong, the Northern Hemisphere’s first named storm, is rapidly intensifying east of the Philippines, where it could clip parts of the island nation Thursday and Saturday, according to the U.S. Joint Typhoon Warning Center in Hawaii.The storm, called Ambo in the Philippines, made landfall over San Policarpio town in Eastern Samar province in Visayas island at 12:15 p.m. local time on Thursday, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said on its Twitter account.

Some 400,000 people are expected to flee landslide and flood-prone areas, online news ABS-CBN quoted a local disaster official as saying. Philippines’ powerful typhoon forces risky evacuations. Due to the Philippines' location in the tropical Pacific the country is hit by around eight to nine storms in an average year. 220,000 people have now been evacuated as of today.The typhoon, packing “destructive winds’, is expected to reach the south-east of the Philippine’s main island of Luzon tomorrow morning with the eye of the storm passing over during Sunday afternoon. In 2013, more than 6,000 people were killed when Super Typhoon Haiyan caused widespread devastation, mostly in the central city of Tacloban, which was inundated by massive tidal swells. The storm's violent winds triggered the evacuation of tens of thousands of people, according to Reuters news agency. As of 8 a.m. Friday Philippines time, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) said the typhoon was last tracked over the coastal waters of the city of San Andres moving northwest at 9 miles per hour, according to the state-run Philippines News Agency. Typhoon Molave, known as Quinta in the Philippines, killed at least 23 people in October; Typhoon Saudel, known as Pepito, struck days earlier. (CNN)Typhoon Vongfong has made landfall in the Philippines, forcing the evacuation of tens of thousands of people in a country under lockdown amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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