A passenger charges her phone as she waits for a boat ride out of the country's most famous beach resort island of Boracay, in central Aklan province, Philippines a day before the government implements it's temporary closure on Wednesday, April 25, 2018. Tourists are spending their final hours on Boracay, enjoying the Philippine island's famed white-sand beaches before it closes for up to six months to recover from overcrowding and development. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte had described the waters off Boracay as a “cesspool” before ordering the closure. (Photo by Aaron Favila/AP Photo)





A boy demonstrates his skateboarding skills during an event to mark Go Skateboarding Day in Manila, Philippines on June 21, 2018. (Photo by Noel Celis/AFP Photo)





Children play in portbale pools, a project from the local government, to beat the summer heat in Manila, Philippines on April 12, 2018. (Photo by Noel Celis/AFP Photo)





Children play on a wooden boat in Manila Bay on May 10, 2018. The Philippine economy grew by 6.8 percent from a year earlier in the three months to March, in line with most expectations though there are rising concerns over inflation, the government said on May 10. (Photo by Noel Celis/AFP Photo)





A man washes plastic for recycling in a murky pond at Payatas district, Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines January 21, 2018. (Photo by Dondi Tawatao/Reuters)





Residents stand on a rooftop of a shanty tenement house while newly-built condominium buildings are seen in the background in Tondo district, metro Manila, Philippines, March 11, 2018. (Photo by Dondi Tawatao/Reuters)





Newly-wed Chinese tourists frolic in the beach of Boracay in Philippines, April 8, 2018. (Photo by Erik De Castro/Reuters)





Tourists walk past a clogged sewer and uncollected sacks containing waste from the sewers along a road at Boracay in Philippines on April 9, 2018. (Photo by Erik De Castro/Reuters)





Tourists walk past policemen, one day before the temporary closure of the holiday island Boracay, in the Philippines April 25, 2018. (Photo by Erik De Castro/Reuters)





Children play on a flooded highway during a summer downpour in Edsa, Quezon city, metro Manila, Philippines on April 25, 2018. (Photo by Dondi Tawatao/Reuters)





Workers who were cut off from their jobs due to the temporary closure of the holiday island Boracay, ride on a tricycle in the Philippines April 25, 2018. (Photo by Erik De Castro/Reuters)





Boatmen wait for customers next to their sailboats, a day before the temporary closure of the holiday island Boracay, in the Philippines April 25, 2018. (Photo by Erik De Castro/Reuters)





A view of a seashore partly covered with moss is seen at Boracay in the Philippines April 23, 2018. Tourists and non-residents will be denied entry and boats will be barred from going within 1.8 miles of the island. (Photo by Erik De Castro/Reuters)





Filipino workers ride in a truck with waste materials collected from clogged sewage drainage pipes from the main road of Boracay island, in Philippines April 10, 2018. (Photo by Erik De Castro/Reuters)





Filipino Muslims pray during the second day of Ramadan outside a mosque in Baseco, Tondo city, metro Manila, Philippines May 18, 2018. (Photo by Romeo Ranoco/Reuters)





Electric wires are seen as a boy plays on the rooftop of Vitas Tenement, a government housing building, in Tondo, Manila, Philippines, May 8, 2018. (Photo by Erik De Castro/Reuters)





A resident throws water at his house on fire at a residential neighbourhood of an informal settlement, in Muntinlupa, Metro Manila, Philippines on June 21, 2018. (Photo by Erik De Castro/Reuters)





A man cries after his house was gutted by a fire at a residential neighbourhood of an informal settlement, in Muntinlupa, Metro Manila, Philippines, June 4, 2018. (Photo by Erik De Castro/Reuters)





A boy living in a makeshift home under a bridge carries Sampaguita flower garlands which he sells to supplement their daily income in metropolitan Manila, Philippines, Wednesday, June 6, 2018. Despite repeated warnings, some 20 families still live under the bridge as they wait to be given a chance to transfer to government relocation sites. (Photo by Aaron Favila/AP Photo)





A boy holds a partially submerged branch as he plays in a swollen river caused by heavy rains under a bridge in Manila on June 11, 2018. (Photo by Noel Celis/AFP Photo)





Devotees wave palm fronds as they are blessed by a Roman Catholic priest with holy water in observance of Palm Sunday at Baclaran church in suburban Paranaque city, southeast of Manila, Philippines, Sunday, March 25, 2018. Roman Catholics all over the world observe Palm Sunday by having palm fronds blessed by a priest to mark the entry of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem. (Photo by Bullit Marquez/AP Photo)





Protesters display placards at passing motorists during a rally outside a filling station to protest another round of oil price increase being anticipated this week Monday, May 21, 2018, in suburban Quezon city northeast of Manila, Philippines. The protesters decried the almost-weekly price increase of gasoline and other oil products which they claimed will also trigger price adjustments on goods and services. (Photo by Bullit Marquez/AP Photo)





Tourists learn to paddle in the sea by the country's most famous beach resort island of Boracay, in central Aklan province, Philippines, Tuesday, April 24, 2018. Thousands of workers will be affected when the island closes after Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte ordered its closure on April 26 for up to six months after saying the waters off its famed white-sand beaches had become a “cesspool” due to overcrowding and development. (Photo by Aaron Favila/AP Photo)





Filipino men get a haircut inside a barber shop near the Balintawak public market in metropolitan Manila, Philippines on Friday, April 20, 2018. Balintawak is a popular market where goods can be bought for a cheaper price. (Photo by Aaron Favila/AP Photo)





Girls' faces are covered by white powder after blowing it, at a town fiesta parlour game, in celebration of patron saint Santa Rita de Cascia in Baclaran, Paranaque City, Metro Manila, Philippines May 20, 2018. (Photo by Romeo Ranoco/Reuters)