(CNN) Philippine officials on Saturday ordered the evacuation of thousands of residents in the southern part of the main Luzon island, as the world's strongest storm this year approached the Southeast Asian nation. It will make landfall on Sunday as the strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines since Haiyan killed more than 6,300 people in November 2013. The floor of a destroyed house after Typhoon Molave hit a town in Oriental Mindoro province, the Philippines, on October 26. Earlier this week, Typhoon Molave killed 22 people in the Philippines -- mostly through drowning in provinces south of the capital Manila, which is also in the projected path of Goni. The Philippines has the second-highest number of Covid-19 infections and deaths in Southeast Asia, behind only Indonesia.

Source: CNN October 31, 2020 04:46 UTC