aimed at preventing the spread of the coronavirus let's go live now to manila al jazeera is general allen dogon is there for us so the typhoon has made landfall bring us up to date with what's been happening. well a.j. and i am at the headquarters of the philippine coast guard where just off shore there are about 20 cruise ships that have been docked here for the past few weeks with filipino crew workers and other nationalities here waiting also and undergoing quarantine now the situation here is difficult we've seen over the past few weeks members of the coast guard conducting medical processing of those who are being quarantined but the situation at this point is compounded and made even more difficult in the region where tens and thousands of thousands of residents have already been evacuated just as the government is about to lift its almost 2 months long quarantine in the entire region as it tries to clamp down on the spread of the corona virus now we've spoken to local officials here there who ways equally said that they are also try their china to impose physical distancing in evacuation