In a press conference, Office of Civil Defense (OCD) Deputy Administrator Asec. Bernardo Rafaelito Alejandro IV said as of 11 am, the death toll include three in Cagayan Valley, 12 in CAR, one in Bicol Region, one in Western Visayas and another one in Eastern Visayas.

Most of the victims reportedly died due to the landslide while others were drowned, electrocuted and hit by a collapsed structure while the number of those who were injured also climbed to 28 and two others were missing.

Alejandro said the "affected and displaced population now reached 2.4 million individuals or 653,000 families from 6,900 barangays hit by the super typhoon."

"As of this morning we are operating a total of 11,000 evacuation centers housing some 804,000 families," he said.

He also noted that the damaged houses now at 4,100 with 37 national roads remain closed to traffic, 12 others with limited access.

"We identified so far Catanduanes as the hard hit area because our office there reported a problem in terms of water supply. It will take 15 to a maximum of 20 days before it will be restored," he said.

"In Catanduanes, Camarines Sur and Camarines Norte many electric posts were toppled. We asked the Department of Energy (DOE) to fast track the restoration of power in the Bicol Region," he added.

The state weather bureau reported that the areas of Batanes, the northern and western portions of Cagayan (Piat, Santo Niño, Camalaniugan, Tuao, Lal-Lo, Pamplona, Gonzaga, Alcala, Santa Teresita, Buguey, Rizal, Santa Ana, Claveria, Gattaran, Lasam, Aparri, Ballesteros, Abulug, Allacapan, Sanchez-Mira, Santa Praxedes) including Babuyan Islands, Apayao, Abra, the northern portion of Kalinga (Balbalan, Pinukpuk, Pasil), Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, the northern portion of La Union (Luna, Santol, City of San Fernando, San Juan, Bangar, San Gabriel, Bacnotan, Sudipen, Balaoan), and the northwestern portion of Pangasinan ( Bani, Bolinao, Agno) remain under tropical cyclone wind signal number one as of 5 pm of Tuesday.

Uwan with maximum sustained winds of 100 kph near the center and gustiness of up to 125 kph was last spotted at 340 km west of Itbayat, Batanes while moving north northeastward at the speed of 15 kph.

The tropical cyclone may re-enter PAR on Wednesday as it makes landfall over the southwestern coast of Taiwan.

"It will then emerge over the waters near Ryukyu Islands on Thursday, where it is expected to eventually weaken into a remnant low on Friday (November 14)," it added. Robina Asido/DMS