The disaster management agency said nearly 39,000 people were affected by Mayon’s eruption, which started on June 8.
News Agency of Nigeria
A Philippine Government agency reported on Monday that at least 628 people took ill after being displaced in shelters due to Mayon Volcano’s eruption, the country’s most active volcano.
The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council recorded at least 10 kinds of sicknesses affecting the evacuees, aged between two and 64.
The illnesses include cough, cold, fever, gastroenteritis, acute respiratory infection, and skin disease.
The disaster management agency said nearly 39,000 people were affected by Mayon’s eruption, which started on June 8.
Local authorities have evacuated more than 20,000 villagers living in the danger zone around the picturesque, cone-shaped.
Mayon Volcano in Albay province, approximately 500 km southeast of the Philippine capital Manila.
Under a state of calamity, the province set up 28 evacuation centers for displaced people, usually in school classrooms.
Meanwhile, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology on Monday recorded pyroclastic flows from the volcano’s
collapsed lava domes that lasted three minutes.
Steam-laden plumes rose to 600 meters, and the institute maintained the volcano’s alert level at 3 on a scale 5.
Mayon Volcano last erupted in 2018, evacuating more than 23,000 people from nine cities and municipalities.
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