Relief efforts continue in the Philippines 10 days after Typhoon Haiyan. The United Nations says some four million people have been displaced, up from 900,000 last week. The toll of the dead or missing stands at around 5,000. In the devastated city of Tacloban, homeless residents continue to gather at the city’s airport in the hopes of being able to flee.
Aika: “There is no food, no shelter, and we could have a — we could be sick here, because of the air, because of the dead.”
Ajustin Cabidog: “We’ve been here yesterday since the early morning. We have nothing to eat, and we’re struggling, and we don’t have any energy.”
Some 56,000 people are said to face unsanitary conditions in Tacloban. Fears are growing, meanwhile, for residents of remote islands that have yet to be reached since the typhoon hit.