UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations said destruction caused by Typhoon Rai in the Philippines had been"badly underestimated" in initial assessments, tripling the number of people"seriously affected" to 9 million.in aid for victims was launched a week after the storm ravaged southern and central regions of the archipelago on Dec 16, leaving 406 people dead and hundreds of thousands homeless.
More than 1.5 million houses were damaged or destroyed in the storm - almost a third more than in 2013's Super Typhoon Haiyan - Gonzalez said, adding more resources were"badly needed". But the scale of the disaster, lack of power and communications in some areas, and depleted government coffers after the COVID-19 response have hampered efforts to distribute aid.
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