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BY ADRIAN STEWART CO
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January 20, 2018
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MANILA – The House of Representatives has approved on its third and final reading a bill declaring Nov. 8 of every year a special non-working holiday in Eastern Visayas to commemorate the devastation of super typhoon “Yolanda.”
The lawmakers have unanimously approved House Bill 6591 on Thursday.
The bill is now awaiting Senate’s action for it to become a law.
According to Rep. Yedda Marie Romualdez (Leyte, 1st District), the bill honors all those who perished as “Yolanda” hit the Visayan region on Nov. 8, 2013.
If it becomes a law, Nov. 8 will be known as the “Typhoon Yolanda Resiliency Day.”
The bill is a salute to the resiliency and selflessness of volunteers and organizations that contributed to the recovery and rehabilitation of all Yolanda-hit communities.
The bill covers Tacloban City and the provinces of Leyte, Biliran, Southern Leyte, Northern Samar, Western Samar, and Eastern Samar.
The storm surge that “Yolanda” triggered claimed thousands of lives and wrought massive destruction to private and public properties.
Around 12.2 million people were affected by the disaster, 90 percent of which are from Visayas.
The impact of “Yolanda” was most felt heavily by the economic and social sectors, which together sustained nearly 93 percent of the typhoon’s total damage./PN
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