Tropical Storm Mario may now be on its way out of the Philippine Area of Responsibility, but it left some 189,608 families or 797,729 persons from nine regions, including Northern Luzon, reeling from its aftermath, as of 4 am today.

Of this, a total of 36,268 families or 161,745 persons are still in 380 evacuation centers.

In NCR, 59 evacuation centers continue to provide temporary shelter to  6,349  families or 28,071 persons. The number of temporary shelters here have gone down to almost half since the onslaught of ‘Mario’ as evacuees started to return home.

Northern Luzon, on the other hand, just started to open 33 evacuation centers serving 1,003 families or 3,833 persons.

In Central Luzon, 17,294 families with 79,315 persons still remain in 114 evacuation centers.

Southern Luzon still has 127 evacuation centers  housing 10,551 families or 45,860 persons with Rizal Province having the most number.

As of press time, DSWD has distributed some 45,371 family food packs worth P20.1 million as resource augmentation to affected local government units (LGUs).

Members of the Social Welfare and Development Teams who continue to assess the extent of ‘Mario’ in the affected regions reported some 863 damaged houses of which 117 were totally destroyed while 746 were partially damaged. ###