Out-of-work bus drivers who have lost their jobs and homes during the pandemic are living in their vehicles in the Philippines.

More than 200 drivers in Quezon City turned their vehicles into temporary shelters with their family when they were forced off the roads in March.

With the country's borders still closed and one of the strictest quarantines in the world, the business has never recovered. The number of homeless drivers living at the Tandang Sora Terminal has since increased.

One of the drivers who settled inside his jeepney, Jude Recio, 35, said he can no longer pay for the rent so he took his family with him to the terminal.

He said: ''My debt is piling up. I have no income and there is no available job during the lockdown so we had to move.''

The terminal is a wide-open space where jeepneys fetch passengers and park their vehicles in the night before it was turned into a homeless camp when the pandemic hit.

The drivers received less income after travel restrictions when the business started to close and the classes were suspended.

Soon, the drivers found themselves retreating to terminals and living inside their vehicles living off donations from good Samaritans.

Some of them, during desperate times, turn to the streets to beg for money and food from strangers to survive the day.

When the coronavirus lockdown relaxed in the country, the drivers were able to return to work again but with a half-capacity rule.

Jude said the income hardly enough to cover his family’s expenses and is sometimes only enough to cover the rising gas prices, but it is better than nothing.

He said: ''We used to beg in the streets to survive and combine what we collected to share to everyone so this is better.''

The Philippines has the second-highest number of coronavirus cases in Southeast Asia with 385,000 infections and 7,269 deaths, second only to Indonesia.