Typhoon Vongfong in the Philippines

The World

As the first tropical storm of the season in the Philippines headed toward the main island of Luzon, tens of thousands of people went to the shelters. If a typhoon was not worrisome enough, crowded emergency shelters are raising concerns about them becoming hotbeds for coronavirus infections. The World’s Asia correspondent Patrick Winn updates host Marco Werman. 

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