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Preparedness and coordination key to preventing Philippines super typhoon deaths

Preparedness and coordination key to preventing Philippines super typhoon deaths

Update: 2025-11-11
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Filipinos are picking up the pieces after super typhoon Fung-Wong ripped through the country.

Eight people including three children are reported to have died because of the typhoon, but it could have been much worse: over a million people were evacuated from homes in 13 of the country’s 18 regions, in one of the Philippines’ largest ever pre-emptive operations.

Arnaud Peral, the UN Resident Coordinator in The Philippines, told UN News’s Conor Lennon the way authorities prepared for the impact is testament to the coordination between the government, the United Nations and the international NGOs on the ground.

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Preparedness and coordination key to preventing Philippines super typhoon deaths

Preparedness and coordination key to preventing Philippines super typhoon deaths

UN News/ Conor Lennon