Motorists pass by a damaged building in the aftermath of an earthquake in Bangued, Abra province, Philippines, July 28, 2022. (Photo by Lisa Marie David/Reuters)





A view of a damaged building in the aftermath of an earthquake in Bangued, Abra province, Philippines, July 28, 2022. (Photo by Lisa Marie David/Reuters)





A tricycle passes by fallen rocks in the aftermath of an earthquake in Bangued, Abra province, Philippines, July 28, 2022. (Photo by Lisa Marie David/Reuters)





A view of the damaged Bantay Bell Tower in the aftermath of an earthquake in Vigan City, Ilocos Sur, Philippines, July 28, 2022. (Photo by Lisa Marie David/Reuters)





Residents prepare to fill their water containers, in the aftermath of an earthquake in Bangued, Abra province, Philippines, July 29, 2022. (Photo by Lisa Marie David/Reuters)





A man inspects a damaged car in the aftermath of an earthquake in Vigan City, Ilocos Sur, Philippines, July 28, 2022. (Photo by Lisa Marie David/Reuters)





Residents refill plastic containers of water from a fire truck during a fire in Manila, Philippines, Tuesday, August 2, 2022. Fire authorities are still trying to investigate the cause of fire. No one was reportedly hurt during the incident. (Photo by Aaron Favila/AP Photo)





Secretary of State Antony Blinken stops to feed an Asian elephant during a visit to a COVID-19 vaccination clinic at the Manila Zoo in Manila, Philippines, Saturday, August 6, 2022. Blinken is on a ten-day trip to Cambodia, Philippines, South Africa, Congo, and Rwanda. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Pool via AP Photo)





A child swims in the flood water caused by heavy rains as a passenger bus passes by, in Manila, Philippines on August 6, 2022. (Photo byLisa Marie David /Reuters)





Soldiers carry the flag-draped casket of the late former Philippine President Fidel Ramos during his state funeral at the Heroes' Cemetery in Taguig, Philippines on Tuesday August 9, 2022. Ramos was laid to rest in a state funeral Tuesday, hailed as an ex-general, who backed then helped oust a dictatorship and became a defender of democracy and can-do reformist in his poverty-wracked Asian country. (Photo by Aaron Favila/AP Photo)





A vendor rests at a public market in Quezon City, Philippines on August 9, 2022. (Photo by Eloisa Lopez/Reuters)





A girl holds on to his father during the opening of classes at the San Juan Elementary School in Pasig, Philippines on Monday, August 22, 2022. Millions of students wearing face masks streamed back to grade and high schools across the Philippines Monday in their first in-person classes after two years of coronavirus lockdowns that are feared to have worsened one of the world's most alarming illiteracy rates among children. (Photo by Aaron Favila/AP Photo)





Students ride a boat on their way to school during the first day of in-person classes, in Macabebe, Pampanga province, Philippines on August 22, 2022. (Photo by Lisa Marie David/Reuters)





A woman and a child arrive at a flooded school due to high tide, during the first day of in-person classes, in Macabebe, Pampanga province, Philippines, August 22, 2022. (Photo by Lisa Marie David/Reuters)





Parents watch from a pedestrian overpass as they observe their children during the opening of classes at a school in Quezon City, suburban Manila on August 22, 2022 as millions of children in the Philippines returned to school as the academic year started on August 22, with many taking their seats in classrooms for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic hit. (Photo by Ted Aljibe/AFP Photo)





Students attend the first day of in-person classes, at a flooded school due to high tide, in Macabebe, Pampanga province, Philippines on August 22, 2022. (Photo by Lisa Marie David/Reuters)





Public school teacher Mylene Ambrocio leads the singing of the Philippine national anthem during the first day of in-person classes, at a flooded school due to high tide, in Macabebe, Pampanga province, Philippines, August 22, 2022. (Photo by Lisa Marie David/Reuters)





A student checks her temperature during the opening of classes at the San Juan Elementary School in metro Manila, Philippines on Monday, August 22, 2022. Millions of students wearing face masks streamed back to grade and high schools across the Philippines Monday in their first in-person classes after two years of coronavirus lockdowns that are feared to have worsened one of the world's most alarming illiteracy rates among children. (Photo by Aaron Favila/AP Photo)





A student looks at a cat sleeping on a chair on the first day of in-person classes at a public school in San Juan City, Philippines on August 22, 2022. (Photo by Eloisa Lope/Reuters)





Former Philippine Senator and human rights campaigner Leila de Lima, a high-profile critic of former president Rodrigo Duterte and his deadly drug war, is escorted by police as she emerges from her hearing at the Muntinlupa Trial Court in Manila on August 26, 2022. (Photo by Maria Salvador Tan/AFP Photo)