The number of deaths due to the combined effects of Typhoon Egay and the southwest monsoon or habagat has reached 27, affecting 765,024 families or 2,856,962 persons nationwide.
The latest data from the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council as of Wednesday showed that 52 were reported injured amid the inclement weather while 13 are still missing after the typhoon’s wrath.
Some 15,604 families and 57,740 persons are still staying in 677 activated evacuation centers across the country while 57,609 families or 231,973 individuals are being aided outside the temporary shelters.
Egay left the country with 68 roads and 4 bridges that remain not passable to motorists, while one town in the Ilocos region still has no water supply. About 52 communities in the Ilocos region and 2 in Cagayan Valley suffer from loss of communication.
Some 102 areas in the Ilocos Region, Cagayan Valley, Central Luzon, Calabarzon, Bicol Region, Western Visayas, and Cordillera Administrative Region have no power supply up to this press time.
The weather disturbance brought 1,876 houses totally destroyed with 48,495 partially damaged nationwide, with an estimated cost of P344,000.
The cost of damage to infrastructure was amounting to an estimated P 3,529,972,255.78 and P50,201,787.23 loss to agriculture with P9,977,216.22 worth of damaged assets.
The government has already provided at least P187.4 million worth of assistance to the affected regions, according to the NDRRMC.