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President Rodrigo Roa Duterte wants the government to construct safe temporary shelters in far-flung villages for families affected by Typhoon Odette.

“Ito ba sila sheltered na in the sense that there is a whatever na protektado na sila sa ulan pati ‘yung maginaw na gabi? (Are they sheltered in the sense that there is a whatever protection for them against rain and those cold nights?). Were they provided with such kind of material to build temporary shelters, not houses?” Duterte asked Office of the Civil Defense Undersecretary Ricardo Jalad, who was reporting on the ongoing government-led response efforts for the Odette victims during the President’s prerecorded Talk to the People aired on Tuesday morning.

The afflicted families have already been given emergency shelter materials, according to Jalad, and the government is supporting them in rebuilding their typhoon-damaged homes.

He added that carpentry teams from the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Bureau of Fire Protection had already been deployed in Eastern Visayas (Region 8) to assist residents in rebuilding and reconstructing their homes.

He noted that more than 339,000 displaced people are still housed in 1,146 evacuation shelters, with some of them temporarily staying with family.

Meanwhile, Duterte plans to return to the “Odette”-stricken districts to ensure that the affected families are secure from Covid-19 infections.

“I want to make the rounds again since there’s a problem on COVID,” he explained. “Sabi ko na balikan ko ‘yung mga lugar na tinamaan ng bagyo at kung ano na ang sitwasyon, and whether or not sinunod ba nila ‘yung utos ko”)

Duterte also wants to know if the people living in the makeshift shelters have been inoculated against the deadly Covid-19 virus.

“Kasi ‘pag hindi pa at saka nandiyan pa ‘yung health workers, gamitin na lang ng Coast Guard ‘yung fast craft nila. Eh talagang mabilis ‘yun. Ipa-deliver na lang natin ‘yung bakuna para maisa na lang. Alam mo, it—pati bukid ‘yan eh, ‘yung iba. It would be hard for us to go there sa kanila sa bukid tapos maghanap ng mga tao na mabakunahan (Because if not yet and the health workers are still in there, let’s just use the assets of the Coast Guard and their fast craft. It’s really fast. Let’s just deliver the vaccines, so we can have it all in. You know, the other areas are far-flung communities. It would be hard for us to go there because it’s remote areas, then we’ll look for people to get vaccinated),” said Duterte.

The number of households affected by “Odette” has risen to 2,336,249, according to data issued by the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) on January 19, more than a month after it swept through numerous districts in the Visayas and Mindanao.

In Mimaropa, Bicol, Western Visayas, Central Visayas, Eastern Visayas, Zamboanga Peninsula, Northern Mindanao, Davao area, Soccsksargen, Caraga, and the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, 8,329,076 families, or 8,329,076 individuals, are impacted (BARMM).

According to the NDRMMC, the severe typhoon destroyed 1,369,433 homes, with 344,650 of them categorized as totally damaged.

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