Metro Manila, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said the country should remember lessons from Typhoon Yolanda (international name: Haiyan), one of the strongest and deadliest storms on record, as it faces extreme devastating weather.
In a statement on Friday, Nov. 8, Marcos said calamities that followed Yolanda in November 2013 “delivered a payload of lessons” on how to improve national response to disasters.
“Yolanda” claimed over 6,000 lives and damaged billions of pesos of infrastructure.
Marcos said heeding the “powerful lessons” is the best way to honor the victims.
“As the most disaster-prone country in the world, we cannot do otherwise,” he said. “We do not have the luxury of ignorance, inaction, and complacency.”
The president said authorities must “guarantee the speedy delivery of relief and aid” and at the same time make communities more resilient against calamities.
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