Filipino devotees join the annual Catholic procession of the Black Nazarene as police surround its carriage during its feast day in Manila, Philippines, January 9, 2020. Devotees thronged the life-sized, centuries-old black wooden statue of Jesus Christ in one of the main annual festivals in Asia's largest Catholic nation. (Photo by Eloisa Lopez/Reuters)





Residents queue up to receive relief goods on January 19, 2020 in the village of San Guillermo, Talisay, Batangas province, Philippines. The Philippine Institute of of Volcanology and Seismology has maintained the alert level four out of five, warning that a hazardous eruption could take place anytime, as authorities have evacuated at least 50,000 people from areas surrounding the volcano. An estimated $60 million worth of crops and livestock have been damaged by the on-going eruption, according to the country's agriculture department. (Photo by Ezra Acayan/Getty Images)





A man clears ash from the roof of his truck, before a plume of steam rising from the Taal volcano, at a fishing harbour in Laurel on January 17, 2020. (Photo by Ed Jones/AFP Photo)





A woman walks along a park covered in volcanic-ash at a town near Taal volcano in Tagaytay, Cavite province, southern Philippines on Sunday January 19, 2020. Philippine officials said Sunday the government will no longer allow villagers to return to a crater-studded island where an erupting Taal volcano lies, warning that living there would be “like having a gun pointed at you”. (Photo by Aaron Favila/AP Photo)





Birds rest on top of roofs covered in volcanic-ash at a park near Taal volcano in Tagaytay, Cavite province, southern Philippines on Sunday January 19, 2020. (Photo by Aaron Favila/AP Photo)





Residents scramble to grab relief goods given by a citizen at a town near Taal volcano, Tagaytay, Cavite province, southern Philippines on Sunday January 19, 2020. Many poor families living near Taal volcano have been affected due to loss of income after business closures in the area. (Photo by Aaron Favila/AP Photo)





A cat rests on a furniture that is covered in volcanic-ash at a town near Taal volcano in Tagaytay, Cavite province, southern Philippines on Sunday January 19, 2020. (Photo by Aaron Favila/AP Photo)





Boys pass by a car that is covered in volcanic-ash at a town near Taal volcano in Tagaytay, Cavite province, southern Philippines on Sunday January 19, 2020. (Photo by Aaron Favila/AP Photo)





A pig walks before the entrance to the Buso Buso elementary school which was damaged by the eruption of the nearby Taal volcano, in Buso Buso on January 19, 2020. (Photo by Ed Jones/AFP Photo)





Children play among relief goods at an evacuation center in Lipa, Batangas, Philippines, 17 January 2020. More than 600 earthquakes have been recorded and seventeen thousand families have been evacuated since the Taal Volcano erupted on 12 January 2020. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) has kept the alert level at four. (Photo by Mark R. Cristino/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Devotees carry their religious icons of Santo Nino (holy child) to be blessed by priests during the annual festival in Manila on January 19, 2020. The Philippines is Asia's bastion of Catholicism and Santo Nino is one among dozens of religious festivals honouring various saints and religious icons, a legacy of three centuries of Spanish rule across the archipelago. (Photo by Maria Tan/AFP Photo)





Boys plays beside images of former NBA basketball player Kobe Bryant at the “House of Kobe” basketball court in Valenzuela, north of Manila, Philippines on Monday, January 27, 2020. Fans left flowers and messages on the walls at the newly inaugurated court after learning of Bryant's death. Bryant died in a helicopter crash. (Photo by Aaron Favila/AP Photo)





A boy wears a protective face mask with a character design inside a jeepney, following two confirmed cases of coronavirus in the country, in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines, February 4, 2020. (Photo by Eloisa Lopez/Reuters)





Students wear masks amid a health scare over a new virus that has infected thousands since emerging in China, in a Chinese school in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines on January 28, 2020. (Photo by Eloisa Lopez/Reuters)





People wait along a street to buy protective face masks at a store in Manila, Philippines on Thursday, January 30, 2020. Health Secretary Francisco Duque confirmed the Philippines' first case of a new virus that has infected thousands in China. (Photo by Aaron Favila/AP Photo)





A woman wearing a protective mask walks outside a church in Mandaluyong, east of Manila, Philippines on Sunday, February 2, 2020. The Philippines on Sunday reported the first death of a new virus outside of China, where authorities delayed the opening of schools in the worst-hit province and tightened quarantine measures in another that allow only one family member to venture out to buy supplies. (Photo by Aaron Favila/AP Photo)





A vendor arranges a flower bouquet a day before Valentines Day in Dangwa Flower Market in Manila, Philippines, February 13, 2020. (Photo by Eloisa Lopez/Reuters)





Thousands of Filipino students dance to take part in the One Billion Rising global campaign to end violence against women and children, during the Valentine's Day celebration at St Scholastica's College in Manila, Philippines, February 14, 2020. (Photo by Eloisa Lopez/Reuters)





A same-sеx couple embraces during a ceremonial exchange of vows in a country where same-sеx marriage remains illegal, on Valentine’s Day, in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines, February 14, 2020. (Photo by Eloisa Lopez/Reuters)





Same-sеx couples attend a ceremonial exchange of vows in a country where same-sеx marriage remains illegal, on Valentine’s Day, in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines, February 14, 2020. (Photo by Eloisa Lopez/Reuters)