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The provincial government is set to place Albay under a state of calamity, which will allow authorities to access quick access funds to provide assistance to affected residents.

There is a high chance that the LPA last spotted 970 kilometers east of Eastern Visayas will become a tropical depression in the next 24 to 48 hours, PAGASA weather specialist Daniel James Villamil said.

Tropical depression Chedeng has slightly intensified as it moves around the Philippine Sea, still far from reaching landmass, state weather bureau PAGASA said.

The country’s second cyclone of the year has affected 77,801 people in the Cordillera Administrative Region, Ilocos region, Cagayan Valley, Central Luzon, Mimaropa, and Western Visayas. 

In its latest report, the NDRRMC said Betty has affected 30,506 individuals in the Cordillera Administrative Region, Ilocos region, Cagayan Valley, Central Luzon, Mimaropa, and Western Visayas.

The poll, conducted from March 26 to 29, also found 42% of Filipinos saying the quality of their lives will stay the same, and 6% saying it will worsen. Eleven percent of the 1,200 respondents did not give an answer.

The poll conducted from March 26 to 29 asked 1,200 adults: “Comparing your quality of life these days to how it was 12 months ago, would you say that your quality of life is better now than before, same as before, or worse now than before?”

Migrant Works Secretary Susan Ople said the Philippines and Saudi Arabia discussed the possibility of a special hiring program “to address the labor needs” of the Gulf state.

“This would require drilling of wells and substantial subsea work to tie back the new production wells into the existing Malampaya production facilities,” Department of Energy Undersecretary Alessandro Sales said in a news conference Saturday.

The COVID-19 positivity rate—or the percentage of people testing positive for the virus among those tested—in Metro Manila continues to increase, as monitoring by OCTA Research showed that it reached 25.4% on May 13.