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FORTUN: AUTOPSY CONFIRMS PALAÑA CHOKING DEATH
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NEWS / A2
NEWS / A2 VOL. XXXVI • NO. 259 • 3 SECTIONS 12 PAGES • P20 • TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2022 • www.manilastandard.net • mst.daydesk@gmail.com
’Paeng’ deaths jump to 101 Gov’t: Little hope in finding survivors in worst-hit areas
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Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said last night. Just over half of the fatalities were from a series of flash floods and landslides unleashed by the storm, which destroyed villages in Mindanao on Friday. “We have shifted our operation from search and rescue to retrieval because the chances of survival afOut of the total reported deaths, 73 have been con- ter two days are almost nil,” said Naguib Sinarimbo, Next page firmed while 28 remain for validation, the National
HE death toll from Tropical Storm “Paeng” has jumped to 101, the national disaster agency said Monday, with little hope of finding survivors in the worst-hit areas.
’Queenie’ enters PH but seen weakening by Friday By Rio N. Araja TROPICAL Storm “Queenie” entered the Philippine area of responsibility on Monday just as Severe Tropical Storm “Paeng” exited the PAR, but the latter
was still wide enough to hoist Tropical Cyclone Wind Signal (TCWS) No. 1 in several parts of Luzon. Although Queenie intensified into a tropical storm, it is not seen to affect the country’s weather conditions as it is
expected to weaken into a low-pressure area when it reaches the Visayas by Friday, the weather bureau said Monday. In a bulletin posted at noon, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Next page
DESPERATE SEARCH. Members of the Philippine Coast Guard District BARMM search in waist-deep mud on Monday for possible survivors of a landslide that engulfed Barangay Kusiong in Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao, four days after tropical storm ‘Paeng’ hit the area. Meanwhile, an aerial view (inset) shows flood-inundated houses at Capitol Hills in Alibagu, Ilagan City, Isabela, as the death toll from the storm jumped to 98. PCG, AFP photos
Solons hike aid pledges to P49.2m PBBM: No need to declare yearlong calamity state as House becomes hub for relief By Mervin Lopez
By Maricel V. Cruz and Darwin Amojelar
Tropical Storm Paeng (international name: Nalgae). Romualdez announced this Monday THE Office of Speaker Martin G. even as Batasang Pambansa Complex in Romualdez has received some P49.2 Quezon City, home of the House of Repmillion in cash pledges for its relief resentatives, was transformed into a hub drive for families affected by Severe Next page
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THERE is no need to declare a national state of calamity after Severe Tropical Storm Paeng ravaged different parts of the country because the damage was “highly localized,” President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said Monday. Paeng weakened into a tropical storm status on Sunday but intensified again into a severe tropical storm on Monday as it continued to move over the West Philippine Sea, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA)
caretaker cleans a tomb using the floodwater pooled around it from the recent Tropical Storm Paeng on the eve of All Saints Day inside the Wakas Memorial Cemetery in Kawit, Cavite on Monday. Norman Cruz
said (see related story on A1 – Editors). Marcos’s statement came a day after the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) recommended a declaration of a national state of calamity. “I don’t think it’s necessary. I came to that conclusion in consultation with DENR [Department of Environment and Natural Resources]. They said it wasn’t extensive. The damage is highly localized,” he told reporters in a press briefing in Noveleta, Cavite. Citing government reports, he said
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AIDING CAVITENOS. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. walks the muddy streets of
PNP: No threats as ‘Undas’ begins By Willie Casas and Macon Ramos-Araneta
Souls’ Day on Wednesday. Despite being on full alert, the Philippine National Police said it VISITORS began flocking to cem- has not received any credible and eteries across the country to avoid serious threat to the national obthe expected surge in crowds on All servance of Undas. Next page Saints’ Day today (Nov. 1) and All
Noveleta, Cavite after conducting an aerial inspection of the province with Cavite Gov. Jonvic Remulla on Monday. Mr. Marcos and Social Welfare Secretary Erwin Tulfo then hand out hygiene kits and cash aid to recipients in Barangay San Jose, with Senator Ramon Revilla Jr. and Noveleta Mayor Dino Reyes Chua watching. Presidential photos
President puts 32 areas under COVID Alert Level 2
By Willie Casas
partment of Health said on Monday. placed under Alert Level 1, the loosest Some 89 out of 121 provinces, highly of a 5-tier alert system. “This means that our key indicators, PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has urbanized cities, and independent complaced 32 areas under COVID-19 Alert ponent cities, on the other hand, includ- such as the healthcare utilization rate Level 2 from November 1 to 15, the De- ing the whole of Metro Manila, were Next page