More than a week after Super Typhoon Haiyan made landfall, wreaking unprecedented damage and killing thousands, the total death toll from one of the most powerful typhoons recorded, is still unknown.
In a two-minute video, CNN International rounded up the situation, 19 million people affected, 4 million of them children, 2 and a half million people desperate for food and clean water. Aid poured in from around the world. Nations have scrambled to deliver aid and assistance to the Philippines.
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| Typhoon Haiyan survivors walk through the ruins of their neighborhood on the outskirts of Tacloban, central Philippines on November 13, 2013. David Guttenfelder/AP |
In a two-minute video, CNN International rounded up the situation, 19 million people affected, 4 million of them children, 2 and a half million people desperate for food and clean water. Aid poured in from around the world. Nations have scrambled to deliver aid and assistance to the Philippines.
By day 5 one local official estimated that only 20% of victims in the hard hit city of Tacloban had been reached. The UN estimates that the area needs 3 million US dollars immediate relief, but it will take years for the area to fully recover, and there is one number that officials still do not know, the final death toll for typhoon Haiyan.. one week since the storm came ashore, they are still counting.
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