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Eastern Samar worries over relief supplies due to Ambo, virus

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2020/news/05/18/20200515-ambo-eastern-samar-ab-08978-(1).jpg"/><figcaption>Residents of San Policarpio, Eastern Samar prepare food outside the ruins of their home on May 15, 2020, a day after Typhoon Ambo made landfall. <em>Alren Beronio, ABS-CBN News</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA - Eastern Samar is worried over relief supplies following a powerful typhoon hit late last week, as it was still reeling from pandemic restrictions, its governor said Monday.</p><p>Typhoon Ambo left at least 4 dead in the province, spawned floods that reached the second floor of houses in Jipapad town, and damaged Arteche town&#x27;s church, covered court and warehouse with some 1,000 relief packs, Governor Ben Evardone said</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/05/17/20/double-whammy-eastern-samar-pleads-for-food-housing-materials-as-ambo-kills-4">&#x27;Double whammy&#x27;: Eastern Samar pleads for food, housing materials as Ambo kills 4</a></li>	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/05/14/20/philippines-weather-ambo-landfall-eastern-samar">Ambo makes landfall over Eastern Samar as Philippines reels from COVID pandemic</a></li></ul><p>The first storm of 2020 also covered in mud freshly harvested rice, he said. </p><p>&quot;Iyong pagkain po ang inaalala natin at saka iyong housing materials,&quot; Evardone told DZMM. </p><p>(We are worried about the food and housing materials.) </p><p>&quot;Itong relief goods namin, for ilang ano lang po tatatagal ito kung makayanan pa namin dahil matagal na rin po kaming namimigay ng relief goods... dahil nga po naka-lockdown kami for 2 months,&quot; he said. </p><p>(Our relief goods will just last for a few days because we have been under lockdown for 2 months and have been distributing goods for a long time.) </p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mBZcATB1cu0?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div><p>While Eastern Samar has yet to tally any COVID-19 case, it is keeping watch over border checkpoints because neighboring Western Samar earlier confirmed 21 cases of the respiratory disease, he said. </p><p>Ambo hit in the same week that the Philippines&#x27; COVID-19 tally <a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/05/15/20/philippines-number-of-cases-coronavirus-disease-covid19-tally-update-may-12-doh">breached the 12,000-mark</a>. </p><p>The storm drove 71,000 people to evacuation centers, injured at least 54 people, and left about P185.8 million in agricultural damage, the national disaster council reported Sunday. </p><p>Ambo was 155 kilometers northeast of Basco, Batanes as of 3 a.m. and would leave the Philippine area on Monday afternoon, said the state weather bureau. </p>

<p>Eastern Samar is worried over relief supplies following a powerful typhoon hit late last week, as it was still reeling from pandemic restrictions, its governor said Monday.</p>

Eastern Samar is worried over relief supplies following a powerful typhoon hit late last week, as it was still reeling from pandemic restrictions, its governor said Monday.