President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the utilization of all available government assets and resources to speed up relief and rehabilitation efforts in areas hard hit by Typhoon Odette, Malacañang said.

Cabinet Secretary and acting presidential spokesman Karlo Alexei Nograles on Sunday said that the President named Social Welfare and Development Secretary Rolando Bautista as the crisis manager who will ensure the streamlining of aid to be sent to the ravaged parts of Visayas and Mindanao particularly Siargao, Surigao, Bohol, and the Dinagat Islands.

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