LAWMAKERS on Tuesday asked President Rodrigo Duterte to declare the entire Eastern Visayas under a state of calamity as the region continues to grapple with the devastation wreaked by the strong earthquakes that has left millions of residents without power.

The 6.5 magnitude temblor that hit Leyte on July 6 wrecked the Tongonan geothermal plant, the regions primary source of power.

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