The latest figures come after a disaster official in the central province of Negros Occidental confirmed that 13 people had died, most by drowning, and that 50 were missing in a flood-hit area.
“We started urging people to evacuate as early as Wednesday but many were reluctant to leave,” Mr Salvador Mesa told Agence France-Presse.
More than 300,000 people fled their homes and beachfront resorts as Typhoon Rai ravaged the southern and central regions of the archipelago, knocking out communications and electricity in many areas, ripping off roofs and toppling concrete power poles.
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