The country’s disaster council on Monday recommended placing the entire Luzon under a state of calamity because of extensive damage from recent typhoons.
Row, row your boat. For now and the coming weeks, boats will be part of the everyday life of residents of Barangay Meysulao in Calumpit, Bulacan, where floods persist. Officials said it would take months before the water recedes. Photo by John Orven Verdote