Twenty-three more bodies were recovered yesterday as the death toll from Typhoon Yolanda rose to 5,959.
The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said 27,022 people were injured while 1,779 remain missing.
NDRRMC executive director Eduardo del Rosario said while the number of fatalities was increasing daily, the number of affected families declined to 2,581,677 or 12,191,201 individuals as of yesterday.
The displaced families are now staying in 386 evacuation centers set up by the government and non-government organizations involved in humanitarian operations in the Visayas region.
The NDRRMC said the Department of Social Welfare and Development is ending its food distribution operations to evacuees this month.
Government help for evacuees next year would be in the form of food-for-work program, a scheme that would give jobs to displaced residents in devastated communities.
Thursday 12 December 2013
http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2013/12/12/1267100/typhoon-death-toll-continues-rise-23-more-bodies-recovered
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