At least 63 individuals were confirmed dead due to Typhoon Odette, the latest report by the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) stated Wednesday.
In its latest data released, the NDRRMC also confirmed that 12 people were missing and 74 were injured by the typhoon that left Visayas and Mindanao heavily devastated.
Meanwhile, the NDRRMC is still verifying 334 more reported deaths, 71 missing, and 1,073 injured.
Most individuals died due to drowning while some died after getting hit by uprooted trees, trapped under the debris of collapsed infrastructures, and getting buried by landslides.
The NDRRMC also reported that a total of 4,176,567 people or 1,073,538 families were affected by the typhoon in around 6,000 barangays.
At least 305,229 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, it added.
The NDRRMC said a total of PHP 16,715,334,982 worth of damage in infrastructure and P5,517,549,728 in agriculture were also reported.
Power supply has already been restored to 161 of 284 cities and municipalities that encountered power service interruption as a result of the typhoon.
Water supply has been restored in only one of the 18 cities and municipalities that reported water supply interruption while, communication lines are now back in 115 of 371 cities and municipalities experiencing signal problems.
