More than 450,000 people were driven from their home, and 115,000 of them were in evacuation centres, including an open air sports centre where 300 people huddled in family groups, along side piles of human waste and 11 coffined bodies.The number of displaced people amounts to the entire population of Kansas City (according to 2008 estimates by the U.S. Census).
One of the biggest challenges now, provided that the Philippines catches a lucky break and escapes further rainfall, is making sure that everyone has food and clean water. The potential for a massive outbreak of infectious diseases is high.
A graphic from the Philippine Daily Inquirer shows where on the archipelago the flooding has been concentrated and indicates that a flabbergasting 80 percent of metropolitan Manila was submerged at some point.
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