LEGAZPI CITY: A mega tent city will be built here to decongest the 78 temporary evacuation camps now sheltering 22,000 families or 84,415 people packed like a sardines for more than three weeks now since Mount Mayon erupted on January 13.

Albay Gov. Al Francis Bichara said the provincial government will replicate the tent city evacuees established in Santo Domingo town to prevent the spread of diseases and improve sanitation.

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