He typhoon Rai, who reached Philippines on Thursday and left this Saturday from the country, has left at least 75 dead and more than 300,000 displaced In the central area of the archipelago, the Disaster Agency reported today.
In its latest report, the National Council for Disaster Risk Management and Reduction (NDRRMC, acronym in English) pointed out that of the displaced only 2,283 are in evacuation centers, while there are 193 locations without electricity and 22 damaged roads.
The damage, floods and landslides caused by the typhoon also They have cut the telecommunications in 222 locations, while there are 22 affected roads.
The attack of the typhoon, known as Odette in the country and the fifteenth to reach the Philippines this year, has passed through about nine islands where he has starting the roofs and caused damage to numerous buildings.
The typhoon, which touched earth on Thursday with winds of up to 240 kilometers per hour, The intensity went down this Saturday With winds of up to 185 km/Hy, he left the Philippines towards the South China Sea, according to the Pagasa Meteorology Agency.
Devastation in Siargao
He road cutting and floods They are hindering the tasks of rescue teams on islands such as Siargao, which has been very damaged due to floods.
“Around 90% of the population of 180,000 people have been affected“said the deputy for Siargao del Norte, Francisco José Matugas, according to the GMA channel.
“Everything is devastated. As far as I can see, although in a limited way, I don’t see any intact building. The cement buildings had no roof or were half a collapse“, Señaló saturate.
The deputy added that 80% of the municipal buildings are seriously damaged, although the hospital only has mild damage, and calculated the damage to the typhoon in Siarga in about 20,000 million pesos (about 400 million dollars or 356 million euros).
Many provinces, including Cebu, Bohol and Guimaras, have been declared disaster areas due to the damages suffered.
In the Eastern Province, an ambulance was dragged this Saturday by a flood with two patients of 33 and 76 years who appeared dead when the vehicle was found later.
The driver and a relative could be saved leaving the ambulance and clutching to the roof, according to the newspaper ‘Inquirer’.
Lack of funds
On Friday, President Filipino, Rodrigo Duterte, said that I was looking for ways to search for funds to deal with devastation left by the typhoon, since it warned that the state coffers were almost empty due to the expenses for the Covid-19 pandemic.
“I am not so worried about the damage to the structures, infrastructure of the government. My real fear is that many people may have died“The president said.
However, the president of the Bayan Muna leftist party, Neri Colmenares, said that a country where typhons are so common should have funds reserved for this type of natural disasters even in the middle of the pandemic.
In addition, he recalled that The Philippines must have money after being the country that has requested the most to the World Bank, about 3,070 million dollarsabove other countries such as India (2,650 million dollars), Indonesia (2.2 billion dollars) and Morocco (1.8 billion dollars).
An average of 20 typhons whip the Philippines every year and the most destructive was the Supertifón Haiyan, the largest in the recent history of the Philippines and that in November 2013 hit the islands of Samar and Leyte, killing some 7,000 people and leaving 200,000 homeless families.
Philippines is one of the countries most vulnerable to the climatic crisis due to natural disasters and, in addition, it is based on the so -called Pacific Fire Ring, an area that accumulates around 90 % of the seismic and volcanic activity of the planet.
