This is the moment a newborn baby was rescued after Typhoon Vamco caused severe floods in the Philippines on Thursday (November 12).

The one-day-old baby boy Romeo Dela Cruz was floating in a bathtub when muddy torrents gushed through the home in the town of San Rafael in Bulacan province.

Romeo's mother Regine was left pleading for help as they desperately battled to keep the infant safe.

She said: ''The water was up to our chests when we woke up. We couldn't carry my baby because of how deep and dirty it was. We had to let him float in the tub. I was terrified we could be washed away.''

Neighbours called for help and a rescue team arrived shortly before nightfall to carry the infant to safety. Regine and the rest of the family were taken to an evacuation centre where they will stay until the floodwaters have subsided.

Typhoon Vamco, also known as Typhoon Ulysses, made landfall in Quezon province on Luzon island on Tuesday evening before leaving the region and moving towards the capital Manila, home to more than two million people, where it made landfall again on Wednesday night.

Thousands of residents had to be rescued from Marikina city in Metro Manila when a river overflowed following torrential rain throughout the night. Many sheltered on the roofs of their homes.

The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) said that dozens of people are dead or missing.

The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) said Vamco was a Category 2 and issued a signal 3 warning, with signal 5 being the highest.

They warned of ''heavy damage to high-risk structures'' and ''increasing damage to old, dilapidated residential structures, and houses of light materials."

The agency said there would be ''widespread disruption of electrical power and communication services.''

The storm comes just over a week after Typhoon Goni, also known as Typhoon Rolly, killed 74 people and destroyed thousands of homes in the Philippines when it made landfall on November 1.