HK renews travel alert against PH

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region on Monday renewed its travel warning to the Philippines, citing the “widespread damage” from Super Typhoon Yolanda to central Philippines on November 8.

In the advisory posted on its Security Bureau, the HK government noted that the Philippines had declared a state of national calamity because of “food and water shortages, deteriorating hygienic conditions, electricity outages and poor communications in the affected areas.”