THREE days after Typhoon “Lawin” struck the country, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council announced that agriculture and infrastructure losses for the Ilocos, Cagayan Valley, Central Luzon and the Cordillera regions have hit the P657,800,695.49 mark.
Agricultural damage was placed at P75,855,695.49 and infrastructure losses at P581,945,000.
As of Saturday, relief assistance provided by the Department of Social Welfare and Development to the four regions amounted to P6,130,750.
The NDRRMC, meanwhile, announced that 22,814 families, or 92,002 persons, are still being sheltered in 643 evacuation centers in the four regions, along with Calabarzon and the Bicol region.
Meanwhile, another 12,672 families, or 57,657 persons, are getting service outside government-operated evacuation centers.
The NDRRMC added those pre-emptively evacuated in these regions totalled 28,710 families, or 143,531 persons.
Confirmed deaths from “Lawin” are still at seven, all from the Cordillera region, and all attributable to landslides spawned by the typhoon. Unofficial figures have placed the death toll at 12.
Reports of additional deaths are still being verified and validated by the NDRRMC.
A total 1,327 houses were damaged—235 wrecked and 1,092 partially destroyed—in Ilocos, Cagayan Valley, Central Luzon and the Cordilleras, officials said.