At least 1,759 people remained missing and more than 26,000 injured when Typhoon Haiyan pummelled a large area of the eastern and central Philippines on November 8 with record winds of more than 300 kilometres per hour, the agency said.
Some 3.88 million people were displaced by the bad weather, with damage to public infrastructure and agriculture estimated at 30.60 billion pesos (711.62 million dollars), it added.//DPA