Over 200,000 people still displaced due to Nona

The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) on Sunday said more than 200,000 people remained displaced as parts of Luzon and Eastern Visayas continue to reel from the effects of Typhoon Nona.

The NDRRMC said in its 8 a.m. Sunday report that a total of 65,318 families or 289,616 people in Central Luzon, Mimaropa, Calabarzon and Eastern Visayas are still staying in evacuation centers.

Of the total number of displaced, 19,046 families or 87,743 people are staying inside 367 evacuation centers. The remaining number of affected families are either staying in their friends or relatives homes.

The NDRRMC also reported that one more fatality has been added to Nona's death toll.

The victim, identified as Jose Huiden, 21, from Bulan, Sorsogon, died after being hit in the head by a fallen branch of a mango tree.

Huiden's death brought the number of people killed due to Nona's effects to 35.

Six people remained missing and 24 more were reported injured, the disaster response agency reported.

Flooding, power outage

The NDRRMC also reported that 118 areas in Ilocos region, Central Luzon, Mimaropa and Metro Manila remained flooded.

It said that it received reports of flooding in 214 areas due to the effects of Nona in the four regions.

It also said that eight cities and 45 towns in Central Luzon, Mimaropa, Calabarzon, Bicol and Eastern Visayas remain without power and 42 roads and 21 bridges were still impassable.

The agency added that a total of 168,439 houses were damaged in areas hardest hit by the typhoon.

The NDRRMC pegged the typhoon's damage to agriculture and infrastructure at more than P2 billion.

Nona entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) at tropical storm level on December 12.

It intensified into a typhoon before hitting land over Northern Samar and exited PAR as a low pressure area on Thursday. —ALG, GMA News