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Typhoon Kalmaegi, after causing devastating flooding in the central Philippines, is now heading towards Vietnam.
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has declared a state of emergency after Typhoon Kalmaegi left hundreds dead and missing in the country's central provinces.
Typhoon Kalmaegi, after causing devastating flooding in the central Philippines, is now heading towards Vietnam.
Kalmaegi has left 140 people dead and 127 missing, many of them in the hard-hit central province of Cebu, before the tropical cyclone left the archipelago on Wednesday.
The typhoon, which affected nearly 2 million people, has forced more than 560,000 villagers to abandon their homes. Nearly 450,000 of them have been evacuated to emergency shelters.
Marcos' emergency declaration, made during a meeting with disaster officials to assess the typhoon's aftermath, would allow the government to distribute emergency funds more quickly and prevent food hoarding and price increases.
Kalmaegi is considered, so far, the deadliest typhoon recorded globally in 2025. According to experts, the rainfall during Kalmaegi's passage was 1.5 times higher than what usually falls in Cebu during the entire month of November.
Meanwhile, Kalmaegi's wind speed is increasing as it heads towards neighboring Vietnam, where there are fears it could worsen damage already caused by a week of flooding. The cyclone is expected to hit central Vietnam this evening, bringing waves up to eight meters high and powerful storm surges. Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha urged local authorities to treat Kalmaegi as "urgent and dangerous," calling it a "very unusual" storm. Authorities have ordered the evacuation of thousands of people.
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