Arroyo lifts state of calamity declaration in Visayas, Mindanao
Arroyo lifts state of calamity declaration in Visayas, Mindanao MANILA - Malacañang on Saturday announced that President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has lifted the state of calamity declaration in Visayas and Mindanao.
Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita said the lifting of the state of calamity declaration took effect on Saturday, as recommended by Defense Secretary and National Disaster Coordinating Council chairman Gilberto Teodoro.
Ermita said the whole of Luzon, which was devastated by two storms in the past two weeks, will remain under a state of calamity.
Mrs. Arroyo placed the whole country under a state of national calamity due to the damage brought by tropical storm Ondoy's onslaught late last month.
The declaration was also made to prepare authorities around the country against typhoon Pepeng, which was feared as a supertyphoon before it made landfall over northern Luzon.
Preemptive evacuations and price ceiling were implemented as soon as the state of national calamity took effect last October 5.
Despite the preemptive evacuations, several dozens of people in Cordillera region died due to rain-triggered landslides and more died and displaced by massive floods in other provinces in northern Luzon, particularly Pangasinan and Nueva Ecija.
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