NDRRMC: 397 reported dead, 83 missing due to Odette

The reported death toll due to Typhoon Odette has climbed further to 397, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said on Tuesday.

At the Palace briefing, NDRRMC chief Undersecretary Ricardo Jalad said most of the fatalities were due to drowning while some died after getting hit by uprooted trees, trapped under debris of collapsed infrastructures, and getting buried by landslides.

Based on his report, 83 people were missing while 1,147 were hurt due to the typhoon.

In a situational report as of 8 a.m. on Tuesday, the NDRRMC said of the total number of reported fatalities, 59 have been confirmed. Most of the confirmed fatalities, or 37, were in Region 6 (Western Visayas).

Also confirmed were eight missing persons and 74 injured, the NDRRMC report said.

Meanwhile, a total of 4,235,400 people or 1,082,910 families were affected by the typhoon in around 6,000 barangays, he added. At least 561,459 were displaced from their homes, some of them now staying in 1,201 evacuation centers.

The most affected areas were Palawan, Negros Occidental, Bohol, Cebu, Negros Oriental, Southern Leyte, Leyte, Dinagat Islands, and Surigao del Norte, according to Jalad.

At least 508,785 houses were damaged — 341,368 partially and 167,417 totally, he said.

A total of P16,715,334,982 worth of damage in infrastructure and P5,342,538,557 in agriculture were also reported.

Power supply has been restored to 161 of 284 cities and municipalities that encountered power service interruption as a result of the typhoon.

Meanwhile, water supply has been restored in only one of the 18 cities and municipalities that reported water supply interruption.

Communication lines, on the other hand, are now back in 115 of 371 cities and municipalities experiencing signal problems, the NDRRMC said. —KBK, GMA News