Typhoon Goni, the most powerful storm of 2020, hit the Philippines and killed 20 people

• Typhoon Goni has killed 20 people in the Philippines, Reuters reported on Monday.
• At one point, the Category 5 Super Typhoon Goni had maximum sustained winds of 195 miles per hour.
• Goni is the strongest storm of 2020.

Typhoon Goni, the strongest storm of 2020, struck the Philippines on Sunday, killing 20 people, Reuters reported on Monday.

Goni made landfall as a Super Typhoon over Bato, in the province of Catanduanes, around 5 a.m. local time on Sunday, according to the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA). It had sustained winds of 140 miles per hour at the time, with gusts up to 174 miles per hour, according to PAGASA.

At its strongest, Goni had maximum sustained winds of 195 miles per hour; that was around 2 am Sunday local time, shortly before it made landfall, according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center.

Super Typhoon Goni weakened to a typhoon at 8 a.m. Sunday local time, then continued to move west with maximum sustained winds of 134 miles per hour, according to PAGASA. Some gusts still reached up to 183 miles per hour, however.

Goni has since moved west of the Philippines, and PAGASA said on Monday that the storm is "no longer directly affecting the country."

It was the strongest storm and the third category 5 storm of this year, according to Yale Climate Connections.

Over the weekend, nearly 1 million residents evacuated the Philippines' main island of Luzon in preparation for the storm, Reuters reported.

Now, another storm, Typhoon Atsani, is heading towards northern Luzon, local authorities said. But its winds are far less severe: 65 kilometers per hour. Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte said that although Atsani is "not as powerful" as Goni, it "would cause damage in its path" nonetheless, Reuters reported.

Goni came shortly after Typhoon Molave, which left dozens of fishermen missing, according to Reuters.

At a news conference, a top aide of Duterte said Goni was "another disaster" to contend with as the nation battles a high number of coronavirus cases.

"We are having a hard time with COVID-19, and then here comes another disaster," he told reporters, according to Reuters.

The Philippines has a total of over 370,000 COVID-10 cases and over 7,000 people there have died from coronavirus so far, according to Johns Hopkins University.