"Nothing was done" in the previous administrations in terms of efforts to rehabilitate areas hit by super typhoon Yolanda 11 years ago, President Marcos said.

In an interview in Tacloban City on Monday, May 20, Marcos said the heavily-hit areas, like Tacloban, have yet to fully recover from the devastating typhoon in 2013.

He said the recovery only started two years ago.

"[E]ven up to now, some of the governors, I was talking to them, some of the other officials, hindi talaga pa tayo nakapag-fully recover, hindi pa natin masasabi nakapag-fully recover na tayo sa Yolanda (we have yet to fully recover, we cannot say that we have fully recovered from Yolanda)," he said.

"[W]e only really started two years ago. Because nothing was done in the previous administration, nothing was done in the administration before that," the President further said.

Marcos also stressed that 12 years on since the deadly super typhoon, it is only now that rehabilitation measures are being done.

"So, how long, 12 years on, ngayon pa lang talaga natin inaasikaso nang mabuti (it is only now that we are dealing with it thoroughly)," he said.

"But the plan is there, we are, the funding is, will be available, whenever the schedule requires it. So yes, that’s what we are doing," he added.