NDRRMC: 'Odette' death toll now at 389
MANILA, Philippines — The death toll of Super Typhoon Odette (international name Rai) is now at 389, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said Monday.
This comes as 64 remain missing while 1,146 have been listed as injured by the effects of 'Odette,' considered to be the strongest typhoon that hit the Philippines this year.
Per the latest report by the NDRRMC, exactly 4,204,601 persons from 1,074,169 families have been listed as affected by the super typhoon.
Odette also caused 506,404 damaged houses and P16.7 billion worth of damage to infrastructure and P5.3 billion damage to agriculture, the NDRRMC said.
As a result, some 570,906 displaced persons, 314,676 are still seeking shelter in 1,179 evacuation centers while the remaining 256,230 are being served outside evacuation centers.
Power has been restored in 154 cities and municipalities while only 115 have had telecommunications fully restored.
A total of 700,321 persons from Mimaropa, Western, Central, and Eastern Visayas, Zamboanga, Northern Mindanao, Caraga, and BARMM were pre-emptively evacuated.
In those regions, 334 cities saw declarations of a state of calamity.
So far, national government agencies have provided P118 million in assistance according to the NDRRMC's computations.
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As of 6 a.m. Monday, data from the Department of Social Welfare and Development shows that a total of P130 million worth of assistance was provided to the affected families. Of which:
- 99,664,449.37 came from the DSWD
- 30,137,105.20 was provided by the Local Government Units
- 1,071,775.00 from Non-Government Organizations
- 12,500.00 from Other Partners
Also on Monday, the Philippine Coast Guard said it received additional relief supplies from the Department of Transportation and several humanitarian organizations through the assistance of BRP Corregidor.
In a statement, it said the donations were composed of canned goods, instant noodles, hygiene kits, and clean clothes intended for families affected by Odette in Central Visayas.
The PCG Auxiliary District Central Visayas added that it donated 20 bundles of one-liter purified drinking water to support the PCG's ongoing relief operations.
Presidential candidate and Manila City Mayor Isko Moreno also deployed a 16-man team from the Manila Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office to Cebu City to assist in clearing operations and provide potable water to affected residents.
MDRRMO Director Arnel Angeles said that the team could not bring relief goods because it brought a water filtration machine and other cutting machines and equipment.
He added that a water tanker was also mobilized to provide water to Cebu City residents whose water supply remains short more than a week after the super typhoon hit.
PAGASA says severe tropical storm Rai entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility at around 7 p.m. Tuesday. It was assigned the local name Odette.
Telco giant Globe has completed network service repairs in municipalities of Anda, Dauis, Loon and Panglao in Bohol, San Fernando in Cebu, and Baybay, Albuera in Leyte, and Limasawa in Southern Leyte.
Services in Mindanao's Tagana-an, Surigao del Norte have also been restored as of January 4.
Globe says it has equipped local government units affected by Super Typhoon Odette with an M360 platform, used to send SMS updates to their offices and constituencies. "Palawan, Southern Leyte, and Cebu municipalities Naga, Cordova and the city of Mandaue, were among the first to avail of this free service," the telco says in a release.
Network coverage has been restored in 98% of areas with PLDT and Smart coverage in Bacolod.
The telco group says in a release that network services have been restored in 90% of Visayas cities and municipalities affected by Super Typhoon Odette.
Earlier, PLDT-Smart reported the full restoration of services in Antique, Iloilo, Eastern Samar, Northern Samar and Western Samar.
The Technical Education and Skils Development Authority in the Cordillera is sending 19 trainers to Bohol, one of the provinces that was hit hard by Super Typhoon Odette last December.
The trainers will help in the recovery and rebuilding efforts in the province by giving skills training to Boholanons.
TESDA Cordillera, along with the TESDA in the Ilocos region, will be giving free training, particularly on construction-related courses. The training will help in the rebuilding homes and other structures destroyed by the strongest typhoon that visited the country since Super Typhoon Yolanda.
The trainers are from the Provincial Training Centers of TESDA Kalinga, TESDA Mountain Province, TESDA Abra, TESDA Apayao, and TESDA Ifugao. There are four trainers for Electrical Installation and Maintenance, nine trainers for Carpentry, and six trainers for Masonry. — The STAR/Artemio Dumlao
The Department of the Interior and Local Government and other regional goverment offices in SOCCSKSARGEN has sent relief supplies for typhoon-stricken areas in the Caraga Region.
The supplies were transported in a 24-vehicle convoy that included dump trucks.
The humanitarian mission is a joint initiative of the Regional Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases and the Regional Task Force on COVID-19.
The convoy on Tuesday follows an initial shipment of relief supplies to the Caraga Region that the DILG regional office initiated.
The provisions — clothings, food rations and hygiene kits — were received by DILG personnel in the Caraga region. — The STAR/John Unson
Total agriculture damage from Typhoon Odette is at P5.79 billion and counting, Agriculture Secretary William Dar says.
More than 70,000 hectares of agricultural land were affected.
Meanwhile, more than 506,000 houses were damaged by the super typhoon and may reach up to 600,000, Housing Secretary Eduardo del Rosario says.
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