Typhoon Rolly and Typhoon Ulysses Situation Report #4 - 23 December 2020
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Over 30,255 individuals displaced in evacuation centres
Over 4,378 individuals remain displaced outside evacuation centres
Highlights
• WFP began cash-based transfers to more than 2,200 targeted vulnerable households in Catanduanes on 17 December, with a contribution from the Government of Australia.
• WFP will be implementing a second round of cash-based transfers with a contribution from the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund.
• WFP transported 74,600 family food packs to the affected areas in Bicol Region, with funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). WFP has since mobilized 73 trucks in support of the Government of Philippines to transport food and non-food items.
One of the buildings inside the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Complex on Roxas Boulevard, Manila. (The Manila Times file photo)
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) kept its key interest rates steady on Thursday as monetary authorities still see the country’s inflation environment as benign.
Overnight borrowing, lending and deposit rates remained at 2.00 percent, 1.50 percent and 2.50 percent, respectively, after the central bank’s policymaking Monetary Board held its eighth and last rate-setting policy meeting for 2020.
“The Monetary Board’s decision was based on its assessment that the inflation environment remains benign,” BSP Governor Benjamin Diokno told a virtual briefing.
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Hungary’s donated mobile water treatment plant to the Philippine government has been deployed to Catanduanes, one of the hardest-hit areas when Typhoon Rolly made landfall in the country last month.
“In the aftermath of Super Typhoon Rolly (Goni), this unit has now been successfully deployed in Catanduanes, the area hardest hit by the calamity, to alleviate the shortage of drinking water there,” the Hungarian Embassy in Manila said Wednesday.
On top of this, it announced some USD25,000 (approximately PHP1.2 million) in humanitarian assistance to help other families affected by the devastating typhoon.
Hungary, through its aid agency the “Hungary Helps”, will partner with Caritas Manila to deliver the relief at the earliest to the victims of “Rolly”.