Then Super Typhoon Rolly (international name Goni) made two landfalls in Catanduanes and Albay on Sunday morning, with its strength of 225 kph peak winds and gust of up to 310 kph. Cabinet secretaries and disaster management officials had held a briefing at 10 a.m., hours after Rolly's landfalls, where President Rodrigo Duterte was noticeably nowhere to be seen. Sought for comment, his spokesman Harry Roque said Duterte is apparently in Davao, where he is said to be monitoring the situation. When pressed on why Duterte did not preside over the briefing, Roque said the president could not make it back to Manila due to the weather condition. In the same briefing, officials said some 96,543 families or 346,993 individuals are estimated to have been evacuated due to the typhoon.

Source: Philippine Star November 01, 2020 07:10 UTC