Typhoon Haiyan

{{Main|Meteorological history of Typhoon Haiyan}}

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On November 2, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) began monitoring a broad low-pressure area about {{convert|425|km|mi|abbr=off|sp=us}} east-southeast of Pohnpei, one of the states in the Federated States of Micronesia.{{#tag:ref|The Joint Typhoon Warning Center is a joint United States Navy – United States Air Force task force that issues tropical cyclone warnings for the western Pacific Ocean and other regions.{{cite report| url=https://metocph.nmci.navy.mil/jtwc/menu/JTWC_mission.html | title=Joint Typhoon Warning Center Mission Statement | publisher=Joint Typhoon Warning Center, United States Navy | access-date=November 8, 2013 | year=2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070726103400/https://metocph.nmci.navy.mil/jtwc/menu/JTWC_mission.html | archive-date=July 26, 2007}}|group="nb"}} As the system moved through a region favoring tropical cyclogenesis,{{cite report | url=http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/advisories/ABPW10-PGTW_201311020600.htm | title=Significant Tropical Weather Advisory for the Western and South Pacific Oceans | publisher=Joint Typhoon Warning Center | date=November 2, 2013 | access-date=November 8, 2013 | archive-url=https://archive.today/20131102083826/http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/advisories/ABPW10-PGTW_201311020600.htm | url-status=dead | archive-date=November 2, 2013}} the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) classified it as a tropical depression early on November 3.{{cite report |url=http://www.wis-jma.go.jp/cms/warning/2013/12/18/typhoon-best-track-2013-12-18t000000z/ |title=Typhoon Haiyan |date=December 18, 2013 |publisher=Japan Meteorological Agency |access-date=December 21, 2013 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240522102929/https://www.webcitation.org/6Lx74uqrc?url=http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/advisories/AXPQ20-RJTD_201312180000.htm |archive-date=May 22, 2024 |url-status=dead |type=RSMC Tropical Cyclone Best Track}}{{#tag:ref|The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) is the official Regional Specialized Meteorological Center for the western Pacific Ocean.{{cite report | url=http://www.jma.go.jp/jma/jma-eng/jma-center/rsmc-hp-pub-eg/AnnualReport/2000/Text/Text2000.pdf | title=Annual Report on Activities of the RSMC Tokyo – Typhoon Center 2000 | publisher=Japan Meteorological Agency | date=February 2001 | access-date=November 8, 2013 | page=3 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151031002308/http://www.jma.go.jp/jma/jma-eng/jma-center/rsmc-hp-pub-eg/AnnualReport/2000/Text/Text2000.pdf | archive-date=October 31, 2015 | url-status=live}}|group="nb"}}

The system quickly intensified into a tropical storm, prompting the JMA to assign it the name Haiyan ({{zh|c=海燕|l=petrel}}) at 00:00 UTC on November 4. Tracking generally westward along the southern periphery of a subtropical ridge,{{cite report | url=http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/advisories/WDPN33-PGTW_201311040300.htm | title=Prognostic Reasoning for Tropical Storm 31W (Haiyan) Warning Nr 04 | publisher=Joint Typhoon Warning Center, United States Navy | date=November 4, 2013 | access-date=November 6, 2013 | archive-url=https://archive.today/20131104084618/http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/advisories/WDPN33-PGTW_201311040300.htm | url-status=dead | archive-date=November 4, 2013}} rapid intensification ensued by November 5 as a central dense overcast with an embedded eye developing; the JMA classified Haiyan as a typhoon later that day. On November 6, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) assigned the storm the local name Yolanda as it approached the Philippine Area of Responsibility.{{cite report | url=http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/advisories/TCUPDATE_201311061500.htm | title=Tropical Cyclone Warning: Typhoon "Yolanda" (Haiyan) Severe Weather Bulletin Number One | publisher=Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration | date=November 6, 2013 | access-date=November 8, 2013 | archive-url=https://archive.today/20131109232818/http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/advisories/TCUPDATE_201311061500.htm | url-status=dead | archive-date=November 9, 2013}}

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Intensification slowed somewhat during the day, though the JTWC estimated the storm to have attained Category 5-equivalent super typhoon status on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale (SSHWS) around 12:00 UTC.{{#tag:ref|A super typhoon is defined as a tropical cyclone with one-minute sustained winds of at least {{convert|240|km/h|mph|abbr=on}}.{{cite report| url=http://www.typhoon2000.ph/garyp_mgtcs/oct06sum.txt | title=Monthly Global Tropical Cyclone Summary – October 2006 | publisher=Typhoon 2000 | date=February 21, 2007 | access-date=November 8, 2013 | first1=Gary | last1=Padgett | first2=Kevin | last2=Boyle | first3=Simon | last3=Clarke | name-list-style=amp | format=Report | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130117015237/http://typhoon2000.ph/garyp_mgtcs/oct06sum.txt | archive-date=January 17, 2013 | url-status=live}}|group="nb"|name="STY"}}{{cite report|publisher=Joint Typhoon Warning Center, United States Navy|date=November 6, 2013|access-date=November 8, 2013|title=Prognostic Reasoning for Super Typhoon 31W (Haiyan) Nr 14|url=http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/advisories/WDPN33-PGTW_201311061500.htm|archive-url=https://archive.today/20131107081700/http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/advisories/WDPN33-PGTW_201311061500.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 7, 2013}} Later, the eye of the typhoon passed over the island of Kayangel in Palau.

Around 12:00 UTC on November 7, Haiyan attained ten-minute sustained winds of {{convert|230|km/h|mph|abbr=on}} and a minimum central pressure of 895 mbar (hPa; {{convert|895|mbar|inHg|abbr=on|lk=on|sigfig=4|disp=out}}). Six hours later, the JTWC estimated Haiyan to have attained one-minute sustained winds of {{convert|315|km/h|mph|abbr=on}} and gusts up to {{convert|380|km/h|mph|abbr=on}}.{{cite report|publisher=Joint Typhoon Warning Center, United States Navy|date=November 7, 2013|access-date=November 8, 2013|title=Prognostic Reasoning for Super Typhoon 31W (Haiyan) Nr 19|url=http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/advisories/WDPN33-PGTW_201311072100.htm|archive-url=https://archive.today/20131108114419/http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/advisories/WDPN33-PGTW_201311072100.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 8, 2013}} The storm displayed some characteristics of an annular tropical cyclone, though a strong convective band remained present along the western side of the system.

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At 20:40 UTC on November 7, Haiyan made landfall in Guiuan, Eastern Samar at peak intensity.{{cite report|publisher=Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration|date=November 7, 2013|access-date=November 9, 2013|title=Tropical Cyclone Warning: Typhoon "Yolanda" (Haiyan) Severe Weather Bulletin Number Six|url=http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/advisories/TCUPDATE_201311072100.htm|archive-url=https://archive.today/20131108114055/http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/advisories/TCUPDATE_201311072100.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 8, 2013}} The JTWC's unofficial estimate of one-minute sustained winds of {{convert|305|km/h|mph|abbr=on}} would, by that measure, make Haiyan the most powerful storm ever recorded to strike land. This record was later broken by Typhoon Goni in 2020.{{cite web|last1=Masters|first1=Jeff|title=Winston's 180 mph Winds in Fiji: Southern Hemisphere's Strongest Storm on Record|url=https://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/winstons-180-mph-winds-in-fiji-southern-hemispheres-strongest-storm.html|website=Weather Underground|access-date=February 5, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180206073501/https://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/winstons-180-mph-winds-in-fiji-southern-hemispheres-strongest-storm.html|archive-date=February 6, 2018|url-status=live}}{{cite web| url=http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=2573 | title=Super Typhoon Haiyan: Strongest Landfalling Tropical Cyclone on Record | publisher=Weather Underground | date=November 7, 2013 | access-date=November 8, 2013 | first=Jeff | last=Masters | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131108071159/http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=2573 | archive-date=November 8, 2013 | url-status=live}} Interaction with land caused a slight degradation of the storm's structure, though it remained an exceptionally-powerful storm when it struck Tolosa, Leyte around 23:00 UTC.{{cite report|publisher=Joint Typhoon Warning Center, United States Navy|date=November 7, 2013|access-date=November 9, 2013|title=Prognostic Reasoning for Super Typhoon 31W (Haiyan) Warning Nr 20|url=http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/advisories/WDPN33-PGTW_201311080300.htm|archive-url=https://archive.today/20131108114416/http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/advisories/WDPN33-PGTW_201311080300.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 8, 2013}} The typhoon made four additional landfalls as it traversed the Visayas:{{cite news |work=GMA News| date=November 9, 2013 | access-date=November 9, 2013 | title=PAGASA: Typhoon Yolanda exits PAR | url=http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/334732/weather/pagasa-typhoon-yolanda-exits-par | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110004603/http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/334732/weather/pagasa-typhoon-yolanda-exits-par | archive-date=November 10, 2013 | url-status=live }} Daanbantayan and Bantayan Island in Cebu, Concepcion in Iloilo, and Busuanga Island in Palawan.

Haiyan, with its core disrupted by land interaction with the Philippines, emerged over the South China Sea late on November 8.{{cite report|publisher=Joint Typhoon Warning Center, United States Navy|date=November 8, 2013|access-date=November 9, 2013|title=Prognostic Reasoning for Typhoon 31W (Haiyan) Warning Nr 23|url=http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/advisories/WDPN33-PGTW_201311082100.htm|archive-url=https://archive.today/20131109092050/http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/advisories/WDPN33-PGTW_201311082100.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 9, 2013}} Environmental conditions ahead of the storm soon became less favorable, as cool stable air began wrapping into the western side of the storm's circulation.{{cite report|publisher=Joint Typhoon Warning Center, United States Navy|date=November 9, 2013|access-date=November 10, 2013|title=Prognostic Reasoning for Typhoon 31W (Haiyan) Warning Nr 25|url=http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/advisories/WDPN33-PGTW_201311090900.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112085723/http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/advisories/WDPN33-PGTW_201311090900.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 12, 2013}} Continuing across the South China Sea, Haiyan turned more northwesterly late on November 9 and through November 10, as it moved around the southwestern edge of the subtropical ridge previously steering it westward.{{cite report|publisher=Joint Typhoon Warning Center, United States Navy|date=November 10, 2013|access-date=November 10, 2013|title=Prognostic Reasoning for Typhoon 31W (Haiyan) Warning Nr 28|url=http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/advisories/WDPN33-PGTW_201311100300.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112085654/http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/advisories/WDPN33-PGTW_201311100300.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 12, 2013}} Rapid weakening ensued as Haiyan approached its final landfall in Vietnam,{{cite report|publisher=Joint Typhoon Warning Center, United States Navy|date=November 10, 2013|access-date=November 10, 2013|title=Prognostic Reasoning for Typhoon 31W (Haiyan) Warning Nr 31|url=http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/advisories/WDPN33-PGTW_201311102100.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112085705/http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/advisories/WDPN33-PGTW_201311102100.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 12, 2013}} ultimately moving ashore in the country near Haiphong around 21:00 UTC, as a severe tropical storm. Once onshore, the storm quickly deteriorated and was last noted as it dissipated over Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, on November 11.

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Upon JTWC's declaration of Tropical Depression 31W on November 3, a tropical storm warning was issued for Chuuk Lagoon, Losap, and Poluwat in the Federated States of Micronesia. Further west, Faraulep, Satawal, and Woleai, were placed under a typhoon watch while Fananu and Ulul were placed under a tropical storm watch.{{cite report | url=http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/advisories/WTPQ33-PGUM_201311031054.htm | title=Tropical Depression 31W Advisory Number 1 | publisher=National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | work=National Weather Service Office in Tiyan, Guam | date=November 3, 2013 | access-date=November 6, 2013 | first=Derek L. | last=Williams | archive-url=https://archive.today/20131104084749/http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/advisories/WTPQ33-PGUM_201311031054.htm | url-status=dead | archive-date=November 4, 2013}} The following day, the tropical storm warning expanded to include Satawal while a typhoon warning was issued for Woleai.{{cite report | url=http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/advisories/WTPQ33-PGUM_201311040300.htm | title=Tropical Storm Haiyan (31W) Advisory Number 4 | publisher=National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | work=National Weather Service Office in Tiyan, Guam | date=November 4, 2013 | access-date=November 6, 2013 | first=Michael P. | last=Ziobro | archive-url=https://archive.today/20131104084730/http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/advisories/WTPQ33-PGUM_201311040300.htm | url-status=dead | archive-date=November 4, 2013}} Much of Yap State and the islands of Koror and Kayangel in Palau were placed under a typhoon watch. The government issued a mandatory evacuation for Kayangel, and although most residents ignored the warning, they all survived the storm.{{cite news | url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-11-07/an-super-typhoon-hainan-hits-palau/5075198 | title=Palau assesses damage after Super Typhoon Haiyan | date=November 7, 2013 | publisher=ABC News | access-date=November 7, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131107181455/http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-11-07/an-super-typhoon-hainan-hits-palau/5075198 | archive-date=November 7, 2013 | url-status=live }} As Haiyan progressed westward, the easternmost advisories were gradually discontinued.{{cite report | url=http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/advisories/WTPQ33-PGUM_201311041524.htm | title=Tropical Storm Haiyan (31W) Advisory Number 6 | publisher=National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | work=National Weather Service Office in Tiyan, Guam | date=November 5, 2013 | access-date=November 6, 2013 | author=Carl Alan Mcelroy | archive-url=https://archive.today/20131105075947/http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/advisories/WTPQ33-PGUM_201311041524.htm | url-status=dead | archive-date=November 5, 2013}} As Haiyan intensified into a typhoon on November 5, warnings were raised across Palau and Yap State.{{cite report | url=http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/advisories/WTPQ33-PGUM_201311050347.htm | title=Typhoon Haiyan (31W) Advisory Number 8 | publisher=National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | work=National Weather Service Office in Tiyan, Guam | date=November 5, 2013 | access-date=November 6, 2013 |first1=Kenneth R. |last1=Kleeschulte |first2=Charles P. |last2=Guard |name-list-style=amp | archive-url=https://archive.today/20131105075923/http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/advisories/WTPQ33-PGUM_201311050347.htm | url-status=dead | archive-date=November 5, 2013}}{{cite report | url=http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/advisories/WTPQ33-PGUM_201311051000.htm | title=Typhoon Haiyan (31W) Advisory Number 9 | publisher=National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | work=National Weather Service Office in Tiyan, Guam | date=November 5, 2013 | access-date=November 6, 2013 | first=Patrick K. | last=Chan | archive-url=https://archive.today/20131106073740/http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/advisories/WTPQ33-PGUM_201311051000.htm | url-status=dead | archive-date=November 6, 2013}} Government offices in Melekeok were used as an evacuation building for Palau. Despite mandatory evacuation orders, most residents on Kayangel remained on the island and rode out the typhoon.

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Shortly before Haiyan entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility on November 6, PAGASA raised Public Storm Warning Signal (PSWS) No.1, the lowest of four levels, for much of the Visayas and Mindanao.{{cite report | url=http://www.ndrrmc.gov.ph/attachments/article/1124/ADV%20re%20SWB%201%20for%20TY%20YOLANDA%20%2806NOV2013%29.pdf | title=NDRRMC Advisory: Severe Weather Bulletin No. 01 re Typhoon "Yolanda" (Haiyan) | publisher=National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council | work=Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration | date=November 6, 2013 | access-date=November 10, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131111003054/http://www.ndrrmc.gov.ph/attachments/article/1124/ADV%20re%20SWB%201%20for%20TY%20YOLANDA%20%2806NOV2013%29.pdf | archive-date=November 11, 2013 | url-status=dead | df=mdy-all }} As the storm continued to approach the country, warnings expanded into Luzon and increased in severity for eastern areas.{{cite report|work=Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration|publisher=National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council|date=November 7, 2013|access-date=November 10, 2013|title=NDRRMC Advisory: Severe Weather Bulletin No. 02 re Typhoon "Yolanda" (Haiyan)|url=http://www.ndrrmc.gov.ph/attachments/article/1124/ADV%20re%20SWB%202%20for%20Ty%20YOLANDA%20%2807NOV2013%29.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131111003018/http://www.ndrrmc.gov.ph/attachments/article/1124/ADV%20re%20SWB%202%20for%20Ty%20YOLANDA%20%2807NOV2013%29.pdf|archive-date=November 11, 2013|url-status=dead}} By the evening of November 7, PSWS No. 4, the highest level of warning which indicates winds in excess of {{convert|185|km/h|mph|abbr=on}} are expected, was raised for Biliran Island, Eastern Samar, Leyte, Northern Cebu, Metro Cebu, Samar, and Southern Leyte.{{cite report|work=Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration|publisher=National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council|date=November 7, 2013|access-date=November 10, 2013|title=NDRRMC Advisory: Severe Weather Bulletin No. 04 re Typhoon "Yolanda" (Haiyan)|url=http://www.ndrrmc.gov.ph/attachments/article/1124/NDRRMC%20Update%20re%20SWB%20No.4%20for%20Typhoon%20YOLANDA%20%28HAIYAN%29.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131111003021/http://www.ndrrmc.gov.ph/attachments/article/1124/NDRRMC%20Update%20re%20SWB%20No.4%20for%20Typhoon%20YOLANDA%20%28HAIYAN%29.pdf|archive-date=November 11, 2013|url-status=dead}}{{cite report|work=Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration|publisher=National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council|date=November 7, 2013|access-date=November 10, 2013|title=NDRRMC Advisory: Severe Weather Bulletin No. 04-A (Intermediate) re Typhoon "Yolanda" (Haiyan)|url=http://www.ndrrmc.gov.ph/attachments/article/1124/NDRRMC%20Advisory%20re%20SWB%20No.4A%20for%20Typhoon%20YOLANDA%20%28HAIYAN%29.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131111002935/http://www.ndrrmc.gov.ph/attachments/article/1124/NDRRMC%20Advisory%20re%20SWB%20No.4A%20for%20Typhoon%20YOLANDA%20%28HAIYAN%29.pdf|archive-date=November 11, 2013|url-status=dead}} Through November 8, the coverage of PSWS No. 4 continued to expand, with areas in southern Luzon being included.{{cite report|work=Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration|publisher=National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council|date=November 8, 2013|access-date=November 10, 2013|title=NDRRMC Advisory: Severe Weather Bulletin No. 5 re Typhoon "Yolanda" (Haiyan)|url=http://www.ndrrmc.gov.ph/attachments/article/1124/NDRRMC%20Advisory%20re%20SWB%20No.5%20for%20Typhoon%20YOLANDA%20%28HAIYAN%29.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131111002859/http://www.ndrrmc.gov.ph/attachments/article/1124/NDRRMC%20Advisory%20re%20SWB%20No.5%20for%20Typhoon%20YOLANDA%20%28HAIYAN%29.pdf|archive-date=November 11, 2013|url-status=dead}}

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Officials placed police officers in the Bicol Region ahead of the storm.{{cite news |url=http://www.mb.com.ph/super-typhoon-yolanda-may-hit-visayas-friday/ |title=Super Typhoon 'Yolanda' may hit Visayas Friday |date=November 6, 2013 |access-date=November 7, 2013 |author1=Ellalyn B. De Vera |first2=Aaron B. |last2=Recuenco |name-list-style=amp |work=Manila Bulletin| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131109044234/http://www.mb.com.ph/super-typhoon-yolanda-may-hit-visayas-friday/ |archive-date=November 9, 2013 |url-status=live}} In the provinces of Samar and Leyte, classes were canceled, and residents in flood- and landslide-prone areas were required to evacuate.{{cite news |url=http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/334469/ulatfilipino/balitangpinoy/pnoy-nagbabala-sa-seryosong-peligrong-dala-ng-super-typhoon-na-si-yolanda |title=PNoy, nagbabala sa seryosong peligrong dala ng 'super typhoon' na si 'Yolanda' |date=November 7, 2013 |access-date=November 7, 2013 |first=FR |last=Jimenez |work=GMA News |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131108073943/http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/334469/ulatfilipino/balitangpinoy/pnoy-nagbabala-sa-seryosong-peligrong-dala-ng-super-typhoon-na-si-yolanda |archive-date=November 8, 2013 |url-status=live}} Some of the storm-threatened areas were affected by an earlier earthquake in Bohol.{{cite news |url=http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/521667/evacuation-centers-rescue-plans-set-in-visayas-for-supertyphoon-yolanda |title=Evacuation centers, rescue plans set in Visayas for supertyphoon Yolanda |date=November 7, 2013 | access-date=November 7, 2013 |author1=Joey Gabieta |author2=Jani Arnaiz |author3=Nestor Burgos |author4=Doris Bongcac |author5=Carla Gomez |author6=Carmel Loise Matus |author7=Jhunnex Napallacan |newspaper=Philippine Daily Inquirer| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131109050327/http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/521667/evacuation-centers-rescue-plans-set-in-visayas-for-supertyphoon-yolanda |archive-date=November 9, 2013 |url-status=live}} Then-Philippine President Noynoy Aquino requested the military to deploy planes and helicopters to the region expected to be affected.{{cite news | url=http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/522661/aquino-ph-ready-to-face-supertyphoon-yolanda | title=Aquino: PH ready to face supertyphoon 'Yolanda' | date=November 7, 2013 | access-date=November 7, 2013 | author=Kristine Angeli Sabillo |newspaper=Philippine Daily Inquirer| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131109071921/http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/522661/aquino-ph-ready-to-face-supertyphoon-yolanda | archive-date=November 9, 2013 | url-status=live }} As Haiyan was moving very fast, PAGASA issued warnings at different levels to about 60 of the 80 provinces, including the capital Metro Manila.{{cite news | url=http://anc.yahoo.com/news/yolanda--enters-par-094049873.html | title='Yolanda' accelerates, signal number 4 up over parts of E. Visayas | work=ANC | publisher=Yahoo! News Philippines | date=November 7, 2013 | access-date=November 7, 2013 | author=ANC | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150208161633/https://anc.yahoo.com/news/yolanda--enters-par-094049873.html | archive-date=February 8, 2015 | url-status=dead }} On November 8, the International Charter on Space and Major Disasters was activated, providing widespread charitable satellite coverage to relief organizations.{{cite report | url=http://www.disasterscharter.org/web/charter/activation_details?p_r_p_1415474252_assetId=ACT-466 | title=Disaster Charter – Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines | publisher=International Charter on Space and Major Disasters | access-date=November 13, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131114163555/http://www.disasterscharter.org/web/charter/activation_details?p_r_p_1415474252_assetId=ACT-466 | archive-date=November 14, 2013 | url-status=live }}

The State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters hoisted a level three emergency response in the provinces of Hainan, Guangdong and Guangxi. All fishing vessels were urged to return to ports by noon on November 9.{{cite news | url=http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90882/8451805.html | title=China issues higher Typhoon alert as Haiyan nears | date=November 10, 2013 | access-date=November 14, 2013 | newspaper=People's Daily | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110054131/http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90882/8451805.html | archive-date=November 10, 2013 | url-status=live }} The Hong Kong Observatory issued the Strong Monsoon Signal at 19:10 HKT on November 9,{{cite tweet |author= Hong Kong Observatory |user= ObservatoryHK|number= 399133275211317251 |date= November 9, 2013 |title= 7:10PM: Strong Monsoon Signal issued |access-date= November 14, 2013 }} and it was still in place on November 13.{{cite web | url=http://www.hko.gov.hk/wxinfo/dailywx/wxwarntoday.htm | title=Today's Weather Warnings and Signals Record (14/Nov/2013) | publisher=Hong Kong Observatory | date=November 14, 2013 | access-date=November 14, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113201647/http://www.hko.gov.hk/wxinfo/dailywx/wxwarntoday.htm | archive-date=November 13, 2013 | url-status=live }}

On November 8, Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng activated the highest state of preparedness in the country. Approximately 600,000 people across southern and central provinces were evacuated while a further 200,000 were evacuated in northern provinces. Alerts were sent to 85,328 seagoing vessels, with a collective crew of 385,372 people, to sail to safer waters away from the storm. Requests were sent to China, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines to aid any fishermen who needed immediate shelter from the typhoon.{{cite web|work=International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies|publisher=ReliefWeb|date=November 12, 2013|access-date=November 16, 2013|title=Viet Nam: Typhoon Haiyan Information Bulletin n° 3|url=http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/IB3VNtyHaiyan121113.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131126022844/http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/IB3VNtyHaiyan121113.pdf|archive-date=November 26, 2013|url-status=live}} Threatening Vietnam after two other typhoons, Wutip and Nari, there were concerns that the storm would cause significant damage to homes with makeshift repairs.{{cite news | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24887337 | title=Typhoon Haiyan: Hundreds feared dead in Philippines | date=November 9, 2013 | access-date=November 14, 2013 | newspaper=BBC News | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113120653/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24887337 | archive-date=November 13, 2013 | url-status=live }} Roughly 460,000 military personnel and other authorities were mobilized to assist in evacuation efforts. Hundreds of flights were canceled across the country while schools were closed on November 11. On the small island of Cồn Cỏ, all residents were moved to underground shelters with enough supplies for several days. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) branches in Vietnam prepared relief stockpiles, consisting of food, water, housing material, and ₫6.6 billion (US$310,000) in funds. The local United Nations Resident Coordinator, Pratibha Mehta, praised the government's actions and credited them with saving numerous lives.{{cite web | url=http://reliefweb.int/report/viet-nam/typhoon-haiyan-un-praises-viet-nam-high-state-preparedness | title=Typhoon Haiyan: UN Praises Viet Nam for High State of Preparedness | publisher=ReliefWeb | work=UN Country Team in Vietnam | date=November 12, 2013 | access-date=November 16, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131128071050/http://reliefweb.int/report/viet-nam/typhoon-haiyan-un-praises-viet-nam-high-state-preparedness | archive-date=November 28, 2013 | url-status=live }} However, there were complaints from many residents that the warnings came too late.{{cite news | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24890114 | title=Tropical Storm Haiyan makes landfall in Vietnam | date=November 10, 2013 | access-date=November 10, 2013 | newspaper=BBC News | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131111024220/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24890114 | archive-date=November 11, 2013 | url-status=live }}

As the storm brushed Eauripik, strong winds and heavy rain battered much of Micronesia. In Eauripik, one canoe house and three residential properties were damaged and banana and breadfruit trees were damaged. In Woleai, banana and breadfruit trees were damaged. In Ifalik, minor inundation at coastal areas and banana and breadfruit trees were damaged.{{Cite web|url=https://reliefweb.int/map/micronesia-federated-states/typhoon-haiyan-initial-damage-reports-6-november-2013|title=Typhoon Haiyan initial damage reports (6 November 2013) - Micronesia (Federated States of)|website=ReliefWeb|date=November 6, 2013 }}

On Kayangel in Palau, a high storm surge damaged several houses,{{cite report | url=http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/Map4-Palau_Haiyan-intial_damage.pdf | title=Palau: Typhoon Haiyan – initial damage reports as at 7 November 2013 | publisher=ReliefWeb | date=November 7, 2013 | author=United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs | access-date=November 7, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131109012013/http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/Map4-Palau_Haiyan-intial_damage.pdf | archive-date=November 9, 2013 | url-status=live }} while strong winds downed trees. Despite residents' refusal to evacuate, no fatalities or major injuries took place on the island. Helicopters were flown to the island to survey the damage and provide relief supplies. The government planned to evacuate those who were left homeless from the island. Koror, Babeldaob and Kayangel each lost access to water and power. In Koror, winds reaching as high as {{convert|120|km/h|mph|abbr=on}} blew out rooftops and downed trees and power lines. A causeway linking an offshore hospital to the main island was temporarily shut down after being inundated by water.{{cite report|author=United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs | publisher=ReliefWeb | title=OCHA Flash Update No. 3 FSM & Palau | Tropical Storm Haiyan (31W) | date=November 7, 2013 | access-date=November 7, 2013 | url=http://reliefweb.int/report/palau/ocha-flash-update-3-fsm-palau-tropical-storm-haiyan-31w | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131109151145/http://reliefweb.int/report/palau/ocha-flash-update-3-fsm-palau-tropical-storm-haiyan-31w | archive-date=November 9, 2013 | url-status=live}} On the northern end of Babeldaob, Haiyan damaged schools and buildings. Lying closest to Haiyan at the time of the typhoon's passage, Kayangel was flooded in its entirety, and all homes were destroyed. Though no people were killed there, 69 others were displaced by the storm.

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File:Radar loop of Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) making landfall on Leyte Island.gif reflectivity loop of Haiyan's landfall on Leyte Island. Tacloban was struck by the northern eyewall, the most powerful part of the storm; it obliterated much of the city.{{cite news | url=http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/super-typhoon-haiyan--strongest-landfalling-tropical-cyclone-on-recor | title=Super Typhoon Haiyan: Strongest Landfalling Tropical Cyclone on Record | date=November 7, 2013 | access-date=November 7, 2013 | newspaper=Wunderground | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131108084801/http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/super-typhoon-haiyan--strongest-landfalling-tropical-cyclone-on-recor | archive-date=November 8, 2013 | df=mdy-all }}|alt=PAGASA Cebu City weather radar reflectivity loop from November 8, 2013]]

Typhoon Haiyan, called Yolanda in the Philippines, caused catastrophic damage throughout much of the islands of Leyte, where cities and towns were largely destroyed. By April 17, 2016, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) confirmed 6,300 fatalities across the country, 5,902 of those taking place in the Eastern Visayas.{{cite web|url=http://ndrrmc.gov.ph/attachments/article/1329/FINAL_REPORT_re_Effects_of_Typhoon_YOLANDA_HAIYAN_06-09NOV2013.pdf|title=FINAL REPORT re EFFECTS of Typhoon "YOLANDA" (HAIYAN)|publisher=NDRRMC|year=2014|access-date=November 5, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201105102044/http://ndrrmc.gov.ph/attachments/article/1329/FINAL_REPORT_re_Effects_of_Typhoon_YOLANDA_HAIYAN_06-09NOV2013.pdf | archive-date=November 5, 2020}} However, the true death toll remains unclear. Haiyan also caused 28,688 injuries, destroyed 550,928 houses and damaged 589,404 others.

In Surigao City, {{convert|281.9|mm|in|abbr=on}} of rainfall was recorded, much of which fell in under 12 hours.{{cite web| url=http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/super-typhoon-haiyan-a-serious/19561621 | title=Official: Super Typhoon Death Toll Could Reach 1,200 | publisher=AccuWeather | date=November 9, 2013 | access-date=November 9, 2013 | first=Eric | last=Leister | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131107112130/http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/super-typhoon-haiyan-a-serious/19561621 | archive-date=November 7, 2013 | url-status=dead}} Storm surges were also recorded in many places. In the island of Leyte and Samar, PAGASA measured {{convert|5|–|6|m|ft|abbr=on}} waves.{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/philippines/10434846/Super-Typhoon-Haiyan-smashes-in-to-Philippines.html | archive-url=https://archive.today/20131108084440/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/philippines/10434846/Super-Typhoon-Haiyan-smashes-in-to-Philippines.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=November 8, 2013 | title=Super Typhoon Haiyan smashes in to Philippines | newspaper=The Daily Telegraph | date=November 8, 2013 | access-date=November 8, 2013}} In Tacloban, Leyte, the terminal building of Tacloban Airport was destroyed by a {{convert|5.2|m|ft|abbr=on}} storm surge up to the height of the second story.{{cite news| url=http://qz.com/144734/super-typhoon-haiyan-one-of-the-strongest-storms-ever-seen-is-about-to-hit-the-philippines | title=Super Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest storms ever seen, hit the Philippines with record force | work=Quartz | access-date=November 9, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131109231544/http://qz.com/144734/super-typhoon-haiyan-one-of-the-strongest-storms-ever-seen-is-about-to-hit-the-philippines/ | archive-date=November 9, 2013 | url-status=live}} Along the airport, a storm surge of {{convert|4|m|ft|abbr=on}} was estimated.{{cite news| url=http://www.trust.org/item/20131109132543-2fgb9 | title="Massive destruction" as Typhoon Haiyan kills at least 1,200 in Philippines, says Red Cross | publisher=Thomson Reuters Foundation | date=November 9, 2013 | agency=Reuters| access-date=November 10, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110032402/http://www.trust.org/item/20131109132543-2fgb9/ | archive-date=November 10, 2013 | url-status=live}} Waves of {{convert|4.6|m|ft|abbr=on}} were also estimated.{{cite news| url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24878801 | title=Typhoon Haiyan: Hundreds feared dead in Philippines | publisher=BBC News | access-date=November 9, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131109164549/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24878801 | archive-date=November 9, 2013 | url-status=live}} On the western coast of Samar, the storm surge was not as significant.{{cite web | url=http://noah.dost.gov.ph/#stormsurge | title=Storm Surges by Typhoon Yolanda | publisher=Department of Science and Technology | work=Project NOAH | access-date=November 10, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110021216/http://noah.dost.gov.ph/#stormsurge | archive-date=November 10, 2013 | url-status=live }}

Haiyan's first landfall was at Guiuan in Eastern Samar, where the typhoon touched down at 4:40 am.{{cite web|url=http://www.surfline.com/surf-news/typhoon-haiyan-leaves-eastern-samar-surf-community-in-shambles_104083/|title=TYPHOON HAIYAN LEAVES EASTERN SAMAR SURF COMMUNITY IN SHAMBLES|website=surfline.com|access-date=May 25, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170827215239/http://www.surfline.com/surf-news/typhoon-haiyan-leaves-eastern-samar-surf-community-in-shambles_104083/|archive-date=August 27, 2017|url-status=live}}{{cite news | url=http://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/12/world/asia/philippines-typhoon-guiuan/ | title='Everything is gone' in Guiuan, tropical paradise forever transformed by typhoon | publisher=CNN | date=November 12, 2013 | access-date=November 13, 2013 | author=Coren, Anna | author2=Botelho, Greg | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140205141605/http://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/12/world/asia/philippines-typhoon-guiuan | archive-date=February 5, 2014 | url-status=live }} Nearly all structures in the township suffered at least partial damage, many of which were completely flattened.{{cite news | url=http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/334889/news/regions/some-towns-in-eastern-samar-remain-isolated | title=Some towns in Eastern Samar remain isolated |work=GMA News| date=November 11, 2013 | access-date=November 13, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113055448/http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/334889/news/regions/some-towns-in-eastern-samar-remain-isolated | archive-date=November 13, 2013 | url-status=live }} For several days following Haiyan's first landfall, the damage situation in the fishing town remained unclear due to lack of communication in and out of the area.{{cite news | url=http://www.mb.com.ph/140-dead-and-counting/ | title=1,200 dead or missing |work=Manila Bulletin| date=November 10, 2013 | access-date=November 13, 2013 | author=Aben, Elena L. | author2=Recuenco, Aaron B. | location=Manila, Philippines | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131128095640/http://www.mb.com.ph/140-dead-and-counting/ | archive-date=November 28, 2013 | url-status=live }} The damage could finally be assessed after Philippine Air Force staff arrived in Guiuan on November 10.{{cite news | url=http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/photo/48227/yolanda-flattens-guiuan-samar | title='Yolanda' flattens Guiuan, Samar |work=GMA News| date=November 11, 2013 | access-date=November 13, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113055452/http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/photo/48227/yolanda-flattens-guiuan-samar | archive-date=November 13, 2013 | url-status=live }} Prior to this, a local priest was able to take his motorbike from Guiuan to the cities of Catbalogan and Calbayog (also in Samar) armed with photos of the devastation, shot on his mobile phone.{{cite web|url=http://www.choosephilippines.com/specials/people/873/A-Priest-a-Motorcycle-and-Yolanda|title=A Priest, a Motorcycle and Yolanda – Choose Philippines. Find. Discover. Share.|first=ABS-CBN|last=Corp.|website=www.choosephilippines.com|access-date=May 25, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170827213333/http://www.choosephilippines.com/specials/people/873/A-Priest-a-Motorcycle-and-Yolanda|archive-date=August 27, 2017|url-status=usurped}}

There was widespread devastation from the storm surge in Tacloban especially in San Jose, with many buildings being destroyed, trees knocked over or broken, and cars piled up. The low-lying areas on the eastern side of Tacloban were hit the hardest, with some areas completely washed away. Flooding also extended for {{convert|1|km|mi|abbr=on}} inland on the east coast of the province. City administrator Tecson John Lim stated that roughly 90 percent of the city had been destroyed. Journalists on the ground have described the devastation as, "off the scale, and apocalyptic".{{cite news| url=http://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/07/world/asia/philippines-typhoon-haiyan/index.html | title=Super Typhoon Haiyan, one of strongest storms ever, hits central Philippines | publisher=CNN | date=November 8, 2013 | access-date=November 8, 2013 | last=Mullen | first=Jethro | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140130053721/http://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/07/world/asia/philippines-typhoon-haiyan/index.html | archive-date=January 30, 2014 | url-status=live}} Most families in Samar and Leyte lost some family members or relatives; families came in from outlying provinces looking for relatives, especially children, who may have been washed away.{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/10/typhoon-haiyan-dead-aid | title=Typhoon Haiyan: desperate survivors and destruction in flattened city | newspaper=The Guardian | date=November 11, 2013 | access-date=November 13, 2013 | first=Kate | last=Hodal | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140125143310/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/10/typhoon-haiyan-dead-aid | archive-date=January 25, 2014 | url-status=live }} The entire first floor of the Tacloban City Convention Center, which was serving as an evacuation shelter, was submerged by storm surges. Many residents in the building were caught off-guard by the fast-rising waters and subsequently drowned or were injured in the building.{{cite news | url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/14/world/asia/philippines-tacloban/ | title=Desperation, resilience in Tacloban: 'We really don't know what we're going to do' | publisher=CNN | date=November 14, 2013 | access-date=November 15, 2013 | author=Mullen, Jethro | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131128093238/http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/14/world/asia/philippines-tacloban/ | url-status=live | archive-date=November 28, 2013}}

Although wind speeds were extreme, the major cause of damage and loss of life appears to have been from the storm surge. The major focus of devastation appears to have been on the east coast of Samar and Leyte, with a particular focus on Tacloban, because of its location between Samar and Leyte, and the large population in low-lying areas. Philippine Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Mar Roxas said the scale of the relief operation that was now required was overwhelming, with some places described as a wasteland of mud and debris.{{cite news | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24887746 | title=Typhoon Haiyan: Philippines battles to bring storm aid | publisher=BBC News | date=November 10, 2013 | access-date=November 13, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112232409/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24887746 | archive-date=November 12, 2013 | url-status=live }}

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Sebastian Rhodes Stampa, head of a UN disaster assessment coordination team, said there was "destruction on a massive scale" in Tacloban. "There are cars thrown like tumbleweeds and the streets are strewn with debris. The last time I saw something of this scale was in the aftermath of the [2004] Indian Ocean tsunami." There was little communication in the city and no mobile phone coverage. Up the east coast of Leyte, there were numerous towns and villages that were completely cut off without any assistance. Large parts of Leyte and Samar were without power for weeks.

The storm crossed the Visayas region for almost a day, causing widespread flooding. In Cebu and Bohol, struck by a magnitude 7.2 earthquake two weeks before, cities were also severely devastated.{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/nov/08/philippines-rescue-services-typhoon-haiyan | title=Philippines rescue services brace for devastation of typhoon Haiyan | newspaper=The Guardian | date=November 8, 2013 | access-date=November 9, 2013 | first=Mark | last=Tran | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140126061442/http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/nov/08/philippines-rescue-services-typhoon-haiyan | archive-date=January 26, 2014 | url-status=live }} During the morning of November 8, media stations across the country were able to broadcast live the destruction of Haiyan. However, before the afternoon, all communications on the Visayas region failed. The Presidential Communications Department of President Benigno Aquino III had difficulty contacting DILG Secretary Mar Roxas and Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin in Tacloban to plan relief.{{cite news | url=http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/523401/manila-loses-contact-with-roxas-gazmin-in-leyte | title=Manila loses contact with Roxas, Gazmin in Leyte |newspaper=Philippine Daily Inquirer| date=November 8, 2013 | access-date=November 9, 2013 | first=Frances | last=Mangosing | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131108212149/http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/523401/manila-loses-contact-with-roxas-gazmin-in-leyte | archive-date=November 8, 2013 | url-status=live }} Widespread power interruptions, landslides, and flash floods were also reported. Major roads were blocked by trees, and impassable. 453 domestic and international airline flights were canceled. Some airports were also closed on November 8 and 9. Ferries were affected. Relief and rescue efforts were underway by November 9, but some places remained isolated and out of communication due to severe damage.{{cite web | url=http://www.news.com.au/national/super-typhoon-haiyan-shuts-airports-flights-cancelled-across-philippines/story-e6frfkp9-1226756128903 | title=Super typhoon Haiyan shuts airports, flights cancelled across Philippines | publisher=News Corp Australia | date=November 8, 2013 | access-date=November 9, 2013 | author=Staffs | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131108215951/http://www.news.com.au/national/super-typhoon-haiyan-shuts-airports-flights-cancelled-across-philippines/story-e6frfkp9-1226756128903 | archive-date=November 8, 2013 | url-status=live }}

Haiyan tossed up large car-sized boulders, the heaviest of them weighing 180 tons, onto Calicoan Island in Eastern Samar, of which a few were carried uphill {{convert|10|m|ft|abbr=on}}. This is considered the biggest weight ever moved during a tropical cyclone since record-keeping began.{{cite web|url=https://www.livescience.com/49201-haiyan-waves-moved-giant-boulders.html|title=Super Typhoon Shoved Car-Size Boulders Onto Philippine Beaches|year=2014|work=LiveScience|access-date=December 4, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171205042123/https://www.livescience.com/49201-haiyan-waves-moved-giant-boulders.html|archive-date=December 5, 2017|url-status=live}} NDRRMC finally confirmed a total of 6,300 deaths in the Philippines, and total damages were estimated at PH₱95.48 billion (US$2.2 billion).

Along the coast of Gongliao District, New Taipei, 16 people were swept out to sea by three {{convert|8|m|ft|abbr=on}} waves. After several hours of search and rescue, eight were hospitalized while the other eight drowned. This was considered the largest loss of life from waves in Taiwan in several years.{{cite news| url=http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-11/10/c_132875773.htm | title=8-meter waves kill 8 in Taiwan | date=November 10, 2013 | agency=Xinhua News Agency | access-date=November 12, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131111233039/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-11/10/c_132875773.htm | archive-date=November 11, 2013 | url-status=dead}} In May 2014, the {{ill|Taiwan Keelung District Prosecutors Office|zh|臺灣基隆地方檢察署|vertical-align=sup}} confirmed that Typhoon Haiyan was responsible for eight deaths.{{cite web |author1=劉育辰 |author2=王揚傑 |script-title=zh:浪噬樹林社大8學員 凶手是……海燕颱風 |url=http://www.chinatimes.com/newspapers/20140507000447-260106 |publisher=China Times |access-date=September 3, 2018 |language=zh-tw |date=May 7, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180903150846/http://www.chinatimes.com/newspapers/20140507000447-260106 |archive-date=September 3, 2018 |url-status=live }} Agricultural damage in Tainan were amounted to NT$400–500 million (US$13.5–16.9 million).{{cite news |author1=蔡文居 |author2=王涵平 |work=自由時報電子報 |url=https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/local/paper/729857 |script-title=zh:〈南部〉海燕浪襲蚵棚 台南一夕損失近5億 |publisher=Liberty Times |language=zh-tw |date=November 12, 2013 |access-date=November 12, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190820153341/https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/local/paper/729857 |archive-date=August 20, 2019 |url-status=live }}

One person also went missing off the coast of Lantau Island, Hong Kong.{{cite news | url=http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?we_cat=11&art_id=139451&sid=40855320&con_type=3&d_str=20131111&fc= | title=Horror as teenager lost at sea | newspaper=The Standard | date=November 11, 2013 | access-date=November 11, 2013 | first=Eddie | last=Luk | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131128070012/http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?we_cat=11&art_id=139451&sid=40855320&con_type=3&d_str=20131111&fc= | archive-date=November 28, 2013 | url-status=dead | df=mdy-all }}

Typhoon Haiyan reached Hainan Province, where severe damage took place and six people were killed in various incidents. The hardest hit area was Qionghai, where roughly 3,500 people across 20 villages were isolated due to extensive flooding.{{cite news | url=http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-11/12/c_132882181.htm | title=Typhoon Haiyan affects over 1,200 Hainan villages | date=November 12, 2013 | agency=Xinhua News Agency | access-date=November 12, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131126224928/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-11/12/c_132882181.htm | archive-date=November 26, 2013 | url-status=dead }}

30 people were killed, while direct economic losses in China amounted to ¥4.58 billion (US$752 million).{{cite conference|page=16 |conference=ESCAP/WMO Typhoon Committee: 8th Integrated Workshop/2nd TRCG Forum |title=Member Report: China |url=http://www.typhooncommittee.org/8IWS_2TRCG/docs/Members%20Report/2013MemberReportChina.pdf |date=November 22, 2013 |archive-date=December 3, 2013 |publisher=ESCAP/WMO Typhoon Committee |access-date=November 26, 2013 |conference-url=http://www.typhooncommittee.org/8IWS_2TRCG/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203012415/http://www.typhooncommittee.org/8IWS_2TRCG/docs/Members%20Report/2013MemberReportChina.pdf |url-status=live |author=China Meteorological Administration }} An estimated 1.21 million people were affected, of whom 26,300 were evacuated. Two people died while four others went missing after a car fell off a flooded road into a river near Beihai, Guangxi.{{cite news | url=http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-11/12/c_132882198.htm | title=Haiyan leaves 2 dead in China's Guangxi | date=November 12, 2013 | agency=Xinhua News Agency | access-date=November 12, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131126224936/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-11/12/c_132882198.htm | archive-date=November 26, 2013 | url-status=dead }} Losses throughout Guangxi amounted to ¥275 million (US$45.2 million).{{cite web | url=http://english.cri.cn/11354/2013/11/12/3521s797859.htm | title=Typhoon Haiyan Leaves 7 Dead in South China | publisher=China Radio International | date=November 12, 2013 | access-date=November 12, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112070456/http://english.cri.cn/11354/2013/11/12/3521s797859.htm | archive-date=November 12, 2013 | url-status=dead }}{{cite news | url=https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/haiyan-storm-kills-china-devastates-farming-20858402 | title=Haiyan Storm Kills 8 in China, Devastates Farming | publisher=ABC News | agency=Associated Press | date=November 12, 2013 | access-date=November 12, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131124131828/https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/haiyan-storm-kills-china-devastates-farming-20858402 | archive-date=November 24, 2013 | url-status=live }} Approximately 900 homes and 25,500 hectares of crops were destroyed, while 8,500 homes were damaged. Additionally, an estimated 3 million people were affected by the storm throughout Southern China.{{cite web | url=http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-11/12/c_132882295.htm | title=China reports deaths amid Typhoon Haiyan | agency=Xinhua News Agency | date=November 12, 2013 | access-date=November 12, 2013 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131126224934/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-11/12/c_132882295.htm | archive-date=November 26, 2013 | df=mdy-all }} A cargo ship broke moorings at Sanya, Hainan on November 8;{{cite web | url=http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-11/10/c_132876092.htm | title=Typhoon Haiyan brings gales, rainstorms to S China | agency=Xinhua News Agency | date=November 11, 2013 | access-date=November 11, 2013 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131115064001/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-11/10/c_132876092.htm | archive-date=November 15, 2013 | df=mdy-all }} three members of the crew drowned while four others went missing.

Haiyan produced high winds and widespread heavy rainfall which affected northern Vietnam.{{cite conference|conference=ESCAP/WMO Typhoon Committee: 8th Integrated Workshop/2nd TRCG Forum|url=http://www.typhooncommittee.org/8IWS_2TRCG/docs/Members%20Report/Country%20Report_2013_Vietnam_final.pdf|date=December 11, 2013|url-status=live|archive-date=January 25, 2014|publisher=ESCAP/WMO Typhoon Committee|access-date=December 11, 2013|conference-url=http://www.typhooncommittee.org/8IWS_2TRCG/index.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140125121554/http://www.typhooncommittee.org/8IWS_2TRCG/docs/Members%20Report/Country%20Report_2013_Vietnam_final.pdf|author=Vietnamese National Center for Hydro Meteorological Forecasts|title=Member Report: Vietnam}} Rainfall totals of up to {{convert|461|mm|in|abbr=on}} and wind gusts of up to {{convert|147|km/h|mph|abbr=on}} were recorded. Ten people were killed while they were preparing for Haiyan's landfall, while no one was killed after the system made landfall; however, 4 people are missing in Quảng Ninh Province. In all, Haiyan killed 18 people, and left two missing with 93 others being injured.{{cite web|url=https://tuoitre.vn/18-nguoi-chet-va-mat-tich-81-nguoi-bi-thuong-do-bao-so-14-579643.htm |title=18 người chết và mất tích, 81 người bị thương do bão số 14 |publisher=Tuổi Trẻ |date=November 11, 2013 |access-date=November 13, 2013 |language=vi |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190820160900/https://tuoitre.vn/18-nguoi-chet-va-mat-tich-81-nguoi-bi-thuong-do-bao-so-14-579643.htm |archive-date=August 20, 2019 |url-status=live}} Economic losses in Vietnam were amounted to ₫669 billion (US$31.67 million).{{Cite web|url=http://phongchongthientai.mard.gov.vn/FileUpload/2019-08/iY6RhUKimkC2WAcp2013-Tong%20hop%202013-CT.pdf|title=2013 VIETNAM REPORT}}

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Due to the catastrophic loss of life caused by the storm, the name Haiyan was retired from its naming lists during the 2014 annual session the ESCAP/WMO Typhoon Committee, and was therefore replaced by the name Bailu.{{Cite web |url=http://www.typhooncommittee.org/46th/Docs/FINAL/TC46FINAL%20adopted%2013FEB.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=February 24, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140224032006/http://www.typhooncommittee.org/46th/Docs/FINAL/TC46FINAL%20adopted%2013FEB.pdf |archive-date=February 24, 2014 |url-status=live }} The name was first used in the 2019 season. PAGASA also announced that the name Yolanda would be stricken off the typhoon naming lists.{{cite news | url=http://www.philstar.com/opinion/2013/11/13/1256153/full-alphabet-used-more-come | title=Full alphabet used but more to come |work=The Philippine Star| date=November 13, 2013 | access-date=November 13, 2013 | author=Villanueva, Marichu A. | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113045237/http://www.philstar.com/opinion/2013/11/13/1256153/full-alphabet-used-more-come | archive-date=November 13, 2013 | url-status=live }}{{cite news | url=http://www.mb.com.ph/yolanda-joins-labuyo-santi-in-retired-list/ | title='Yolanda' joins 'Labuyo,' 'Santi' in retired list |work=Manila Bulletin| date=November 20, 2013 | access-date=November 23, 2013 | archive-url=https://archive.today/20131123042743/http://www.mb.com.ph/yolanda-joins-labuyo-santi-in-retired-list/ | archive-date=November 23, 2013 | url-status=live }} PAGASA chose the name Yasmin to replace Yolanda for the 2017 season.

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By November 11, the provinces of Aklan, Capiz, Cebu, Iloilo, Leyte, Palawan, and Samar were placed under a state of national calamity, allowing the government to use state funds for relief and rehabilitation and to control prices of basic goods.{{cite news | url=https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/2013/11/11/proclamation-no-682-s-2013/ | title=Proclamation No. 682, s. 2013 | newspaper=Official Gazette | date=November 11, 2013 | access-date=November 12, 2013 }} Additionally, approximately ₱30.6 million (US$700,000) had been allocated in relief assistance by the NDRRMC. Local and national agencies deployed a collective 18,177 personnel, 844 vehicles, 44 seagoing vessels, and 31 aircraft for various operations. CBCP also declared 8 days of mourning for victims of the typhoon on the same date.{{cite news|url=http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/11/11/13/cbcp-declares-8-days-mourning-yolanda-victims |title=CBCP declares 8 days of mourning for 'Yolanda' victims |work=ABS-CBN News|date=November 11, 2013 |access-date=December 9, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150212211033/http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/11/11/13/cbcp-declares-8-days-mourning-yolanda-victims |archive-date=February 12, 2015 }}{{Cite news|last=Saaduddin|first=Jii|title=Helping Filipinos One Can At A Time|page=Typhoon Yolanda "Haiyan"|work=Davao Sikat Blog|url=https://suyfoods.com.ph/helping-filipino-one-can-at-a-time/|archive-date=January 4, 2022|access-date=January 4, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220104023720/https://suyfoods.com.ph/helping-filipino-one-can-at-a-time/|url-status=dead}}

World Health Organization Representative in the Philippines Dr. Julie Hall noted that while many survivors requiring medical attention in the first week suffer from trauma and fractures, the concern shifts toward chronic conditions as the weeks pass. The WHO coordinated the massive international response to help the Philippine government meet the acute need for healthcare services in the affected areas.{{cite news | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24980472 | title=Philippines typhoon: UK doctors speak from storm-hit country | date=November 17, 2013 | access-date=December 19, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131130173626/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24980472 | archive-date=November 30, 2013 | url-status=live }}

Extreme damage to infrastructure throughout the region posed logistical problems that greatly slowed relief efforts. Though aid was flown into local airports, most of it remained there as roads remained closed.{{cite news | url=http://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/13/world/asia/typhoon-haiyan/ | title=Typhoon Haiyan: Grief and hunger dominate amid survival struggle | publisher=CNN | date=November 13, 2013 | access-date=November 13, 2013 | author=Michael Pearson. Nick Paton Walsh and Anna Coren | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131115163239/http://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/13/world/asia/typhoon-haiyan/ | archive-date=November 15, 2013 | url-status=live }} According to estimates on November 13, only 20 percent of the affected population in Tacloban was receiving aid. With a lack of access to clean water, some residents dug up water pipes and boiled water from there in order to survive. Thousands of people sought to evacuate the city via C-130 cargo planes, however, the slow process fueled further aggravation. Reports of escaped prisoners raping women in the city prompted a further urgency to evacuate. One resident was quoted as saying "Tacloban is a dead city." Due to the lack of electricity, planes could only operate during the daylight, further slowing the evacuations. At dawn on November 12, thousands of people broke through fences and rushed towards planes only to be forced back by police and military personnel. A similar incident occurred later that day as a U.S. cargo plane was landing.{{cite news | url=https://latimes.com/world/la-fg-philippines-typhoon-20131113,0,5789248,full.story#axzz2kY2KkQXI | title=Desperation grows among Philippine survivors of Typhoon Haiyan | newspaper=Los Angeles Times | date=November 12, 2013 | access-date=November 13, 2013 | first1=Sunshine | last1=de Leon | first2=Barbara | last2=Demick | name-list-style=amp | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131114005711/http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-philippines-typhoon-20131113,0,5789248,full.story#axzz2kY2KkQXI | archive-date=November 14, 2013 | url-status=dead | df=mdy-all }}

On November 14, a correspondent from the BBC reported Tacloban to be a "war zone", although the situation soon stabilized when the presence of government law enforcement was increased. Safety concerns prompted several relief agencies to back out of the operation, and some United Nations staff were pulled out for safety reasons. A message circulating among the agencies urged them to not go into Tacloban for this reason.{{cite news|first=Kate|last=Hodal|newspaper=The Guardian|date=November 14, 2013|access-date=November 14, 2013|title=Typhoon Haiyan: Philippines aid effort hampered by lawlessness|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/14/typhoon-haiyan-philippines|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131114103401/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/14/typhoon-haiyan-philippines|archive-date=November 14, 2013|url-status=live}} On the west coast of Leyte Island, residents in Ormoc were fearing that the focus on Tacloban would leave them without aid. Though not as hard hit, roughly 90 percent of the city was damaged or destroyed and supplies were running low. Hospitals in the city were either shut down or working at partial capacity, leaving many of the nearly 2,000 injured in the city without medical assistance. In nearby Baybay, lack of assistance fueled anger and incited looting for survival.{{cite news|first=Gerry|last=Mullany|newspaper=The New York Times|date=November 14, 2013|access-date=November 14, 2013|title=Overshadowed by Tacloban, Other Devastated Philippine Cities Fear Aid Will Not Come|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/15/world/asia/aid-worker-describes-destruction-in-another-philippine-city.html?_r=0|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131114104947/http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/15/world/asia/aid-worker-describes-destruction-in-another-philippine-city.html?_r=0|archive-date=November 14, 2013|url-status=live}}

In the coastal community of Guiuan, which took the full brunt of the typhoon, Mayor Christopher Gonzalez is credited with saving countless lives after he incessantly urged residents to evacuate. He referred to the storm as "delubyo (deluge)", which roughly translates to Armageddon. Of the town's 45,000 residents, 87 died, 931 were injured, and 23 others were listed as missing. U.S. Navy Capt. Russell Hays, a medical officer, estimated that a storm of Haiyan's caliber could have killed as many as 4,500 in Guiuan alone had it not been for the mayor's efforts.{{cite news|first1=Paul |last1=Baylis |author2=Te-Ping Chen |name-list-style=amp |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal|date=November 14, 2013|access-date=November 14, 2013|title=How One Philippine Town Avoided Calamity |url=https://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304243904579197242462490948|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131114232724/http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304243904579197242462490948|url-status=live |archive-date=November 14, 2013}}

On November 18, the government of the Philippines launched an online portal, called the Foreign Aid Transparency Hub (FaiTH), that provides the public a transparency view of the funds and other aids received by the government from the international community.{{cite news | url=https://blogs.wsj.com/searealtime/2013/11/19/have-faith-in-aid-donations-say-philippine-officials/ | title=Have Faith in Aid Donations, Say Philippine Officials | newspaper=The Wall Street Journal | date=November 19, 2013 | access-date=November 19, 2013 | first=Cris | last=Larano | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131120211257/http://blogs.wsj.com/searealtime/2013/11/19/have-faith-in-aid-donations-say-philippine-officials/ | archive-date=November 20, 2013 | url-status=live }}{{cite news | url=http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2013/11/18/1258028/faith-foreign-aid | title='FAiTH' for foreign aid |work=The Philippine Star| date=November 18, 2013 | access-date=November 19, 2013 | author=Zinnia Dela Peña | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131119083238/http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2013/11/18/1258028/faith-foreign-aid | archive-date=November 19, 2013 | url-status=live }}

To lead the management and rehabilitation efforts of the central provinces in the Philippines affected by Typhoon Haiyan, Philippines President Benigno Aquino III appointed Panfilo Lacson as Typhoon Haiyan Rehabilitation Czar.{{cite news | url=https://blogs.wsj.com/searealtime/2013/12/02/philippines-aquino-appoints-past-senator-to-helm-typhoon-rehab/ | title=Philippines' Aquino Appoints Past Senator to Helm Typhoon Rehab | newspaper=The Wall Street Journal | date=December 2, 2013 | access-date=December 9, 2013 | first=Cris | last=Larano | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131206014144/http://blogs.wsj.com/searealtime/2013/12/02/philippines-aquino-appoints-past-senator-to-helm-typhoon-rehab/ | archive-date=December 6, 2013 | url-status=live }}

During his presidency in mid-2017, Rodrigo Duterte created the IATF-Yolanda—an inter-agency task force to monitor and implement the government's rehabilitation programs in Haiyan-affected areas—{{cite news |last1=Morallo |first1=Audrey |title=Duterte creates task force to monitor Yolanda rehabilitation |url=https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2017/08/10/1727564/duterte-creates-task-force-monitor-yolanda-rehabilitation |access-date=1 September 2024 |work=The Philippine Star |date=August 10, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170810162826/https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2017/08/10/1727564/duterte-creates-task-force-monitor-yolanda-rehabilitation |archive-date=August 10, 2017}} later extending the agency's term until the end of his tenure.{{cite news |last1=Parrocha |first1=Azer |title=Duterte extends term of task force overseeing Yolanda rehab |url=https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1116785 |access-date=1 September 2024 |work=Philippine News Agency |date=September 28, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201021192745/https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1116785 |archive-date=October 21, 2020}} With the assistance of the agency, the National Housing Authority expedited the construction of housing units in the affected areas; around 148,000 of the 204,000 housing units for Haiyan survivors were completed by September 2021.{{cite news |last1=Lim |first1=Cherry Ann |title=Over 400 homes for Yolanda victims in Pilar, Cebu |url=https://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/local-news/over-400-homes-for-yolanda-victims-in-pilar-cebu |access-date=1 September 2024 |work=SunStar |date=7 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240901162413/https://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/local-news/over-400-homes-for-yolanda-victims-in-pilar-cebu |archive-date=1 September 2024 |language=en}}

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Typhoon Haiyan knocked over Power Barge 103 of NAPOCOR in Estancia, Iloilo causing an oil spill.{{cite news | url=http://www.rappler.com/move-ph/issues/disasters/typhoon-yolanda/44672-doh-air-pollution-estancia-oil-spill-critical-level | title=DOH: Air pollution in Iloilo oil spill site at critical level |work=Rappler| date=November 27, 2013 | access-date=December 9, 2013 | first=Hazel P. | last=Villa | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151031013106/http://www.rappler.com/move-ph/issues/disasters/typhoon-yolanda/44672-doh-air-pollution-estancia-oil-spill-critical-level | archive-date=October 31, 2015 | url-status=live }}{{cite web | url=http://www.interaksyon.com/article/75725/napocor-president-assures-iloilo-oil-spill-cleanup-to-abide-by-doh-recommendations | title=Napocor president assures Iloilo oil spill cleanup to abide by DOH recommendations | publisher=Interaksyon | work=Philippines News Agency | date=November 27, 2013 | access-date=December 9, 2013 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129015940/http://www.interaksyon.com/article/75725/napocor-president-assures-iloilo-oil-spill-cleanup-to-abide-by-doh-recommendations | archive-date=November 29, 2014 | df=mdy-all }}{{cite news | url=http://www.philstar.com/nation/2013/11/29/1262343/group-urges-iloilo-fishermen-sue-napocor-oil-leak | title=Group urges Iloilo fishermen to sue Napocor for oil leak |work=The Philippine Star| date=November 29, 2013 | access-date=December 9, 2013 | first=Dennis | last=Carcamo | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141214133010/http://www.philstar.com/nation/2013/11/29/1262343/group-urges-iloilo-fishermen-sue-napocor-oil-leak | archive-date=December 14, 2014 | url-status=live }}{{cite news | url=http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/regions/11/28/13/benzene-iloilo-oil-spill-reaches-alarming-level | title=Benzene from Iloilo oil spill reaches alarming level |work=ABS-CBN News| date=November 28, 2013 | access-date=December 9, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202083010/http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/regions/11/28/13/benzene-iloilo-oil-spill-reaches-alarming-level | archive-date=December 2, 2013 | url-status=live }} As a result of the typhoon, the government is planning to replant mangroves in coastal areas while preserving the remaining ones.{{cite news | url=http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/se-asia/story/typhoon-haiyan-philippines-plant-more-mangroves-20131124 | title=Typhoon Haiyan: Philippines to plant more mangroves | newspaper=The Straits Times | date=November 24, 2013 | access-date=November 24, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131217024920/http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/se-asia/story/typhoon-haiyan-philippines-plant-more-mangroves-20131124 | archive-date=December 17, 2013 | url-status=live }} Affected residents were allowed to return to their homes by the Department of Health on December 7, 2013, after an air quality test found out that benzene levels in affected areas reached near-zero parts per million. Earlier, residents were asked to evacuate affected areas as the benzene levels had reached unhealthy amounts.{{cite web|url=http://www.dwiz882.com/2/news/national/23504/mga-residente-ng-iloilo-na-apektado-ng-oil-spill-pinauwi-na-sa-kanilang-mga-tahanan/?PHPSESSID=e60044f8ea221d651273392353007fc2|title=Mga residente ng Iloilo na apektado ng oil spill, pinauwi na sa kanilang mga tahanan|author=K. Villanoy|date=December 20, 2013|publisher=DWIZ|language=fil|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131220181235/https://www.dwiz882.com/2/news/national/23504/mga-residente-ng-iloilo-na-apektado-ng-oil-spill-pinauwi-na-sa-kanilang-mga-tahanan/?PHPSESSID=e60044f8ea221d651273392353007fc2|archive-date=December 20, 2013|access-date=December 23, 2013}}

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Throughout Tacloban, widespread looting took place in the days following Haiyan's passage. In some instances, relief trucks were attacked and had food stolen in the city. Two of the city's malls and numerous grocery stores were subjected to looting. A fuel depot in the city was guarded by armed police while 200 additional officers were dispatched to assist.{{cite news | url=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/typhoon-haiyan-slams-into-northern-vietnam/ | title=Typhoon Haiyan slams into northern Vietnam | publisher=CBS News | agency=Associated Press | date=November 10, 2013 | access-date=November 10, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131128060515/http://www.cbsnews.com/news/typhoon-haiyan-slams-into-northern-vietnam/ | archive-date=November 28, 2013 | url-status=live }} Security checkpoints had since been set up all over Tacloban and a curfew was imposed on residents to prevent more attacks.{{cite news | url=http://www.rappler.com/nation/43516-curfew-armored-vehicles-tacloban | title=Curfew, armored vehicles in Tacloban |work=Rappler| date=November 12, 2013 | agency=Agence France-Presse | access-date=November 13, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131115015238/http://www.rappler.com/nation/43516-curfew-armored-vehicles-tacloban | archive-date=November 15, 2013 | url-status=live }} Philippine military forces also prevented members of the New People's Army from ambushing a relief convoy bound for Samar in Matnog, Sorsogon, killing two.{{cite news | url=http://www.philstar.com/nation/2013/11/12/1255855/military-foils-npa-attempt-ambush-relief-convoy-samar | title=Military foils NPA attempt to ambush relief convoy to Samar |work=The Philippine Star| date=November 12, 2013 | access-date=November 12, 2013 | author=Laude, Jaime | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112110956/http://www.philstar.com/nation/2013/11/12/1255855/military-foils-npa-attempt-ambush-relief-convoy-samar | archive-date=November 12, 2013 | url-status=live }} President Benigno Aquino III considered declaring martial law in hopes of restoring order in affected areas.{{cite news | url=https://www.foxnews.com/world/philippine-red-cross-says-typhoon-relief-efforts-being-hampered-by-looters/ | title=Philippine Red Cross says typhoon relief efforts being hampered by looters | publisher=Fox News | agency=Associated Press | date=November 10, 2013 | access-date=November 10, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110175636/http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/11/10/strongest-typhoon-year-hits-philippines/ | archive-date=November 10, 2013 | url-status=live }}{{cite news | title=Philippines reeling after historic typhoon | newspaper=The Washington Post | date=November 11, 2013 | author=Harlan, Chico | pages=A1, A20}}

Looting intensified as slow recovery efforts forced residents to seek any means necessary to survive. Tacloban city administrator Tecson John Lim stated, "The looting is not criminality. It is self-preservation." The Chicago Tribune reported that some areas were on the brink of anarchy, though Interior Secretary Mar Roxas denied such claims. Further complicating efforts to retain order was the lack of officers reporting for work. In Tacloban, only 100 of the city's 1,300 police personnel reported for duty. In Alangalang, just west of Tacloban, eight people were crushed to death after the walls of a warehouse collapsed during a raid on a government rice stockpile. Approximately 33,000 bags of rice, each weighing {{convert|50|kg|lb|abbr=on}}, were stolen. Warehouses were also raided in Jaro and Palo. Throughout Tacloban itself, people began looting from homes as stores had been completely emptied.{{cite web| agency=Reuters| newspaper=Chicago Tribune | date=November 13, 2013 | access-date=November 13, 2013 | title=Typhoon Haiyan: Desperate Philippine survivors turn to looting | url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-philippines-typhoon-haiyan-20131113,0,4099086,full.story | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131118161818/http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-philippines-typhoon-haiyan-20131113,0,4099086,full.story | archive-date=November 18, 2013 | url-status=live}}

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Condemnations of slow government action in the relief effort in response to the typhoon mounted days after the storm had passed. Media reports criticized the Aquino administration for apparent lack of preparation and coordination among government agencies in the aid operation.{{cite news | url=http://www.thestandard.com.hk/breaking_news_detail.asp?id=43117&icid=4&d_str= | title=Manila media cite inept typhoon aid effort | newspaper=The Standard | date=November 13, 2013 | access-date=November 14, 2013 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131128062902/http://www.thestandard.com.hk/breaking_news_detail.asp?id=43117&icid=4&d_str= | archive-date=November 28, 2013 | df=mdy-all }}{{cite web | url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-philippines-typhoon-idUKBRE9A701120131114 | title=Aquino under pressure over typhoon aid, U.S. carrier to arrive | website=Reuters | date=November 14, 2013 | access-date=November 14, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131114173909/http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/11/14/uk-philippines-typhoon-idUKBRE9A701120131114 | archive-date=November 14, 2013 | url-status=dead }} Up until November 12, five days after the typhoon struck, survivors continued to struggle with basic necessities such as food, water, and shelter while remote towns in Leyte and Samar were yet to be reached by aid.{{cite news | url=http://manilastandardtoday.com/2013/11/14/govt-slow-response-hit/ | title=Govt slow response hit | newspaper=Manila Standard Today | date=November 14, 2013 | access-date=November 14, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131116151613/http://manilastandardtoday.com/2013/11/14/govt-slow-response-hit/ | archive-date=November 16, 2013 | url-status=live }} The Philippine government responded by saying that they have dealt with the tragedy "quite well" but the response had been slow due to the breakdown of the local governance in affected areas where officials and employees, who were usually the first to respond in these events, were victims of the typhoon themselves.{{cite web | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24928138 | title=Typhoon Haiyan: Philippines defends aid response | publisher=BBC | date=November 13, 2013 | access-date=November 14, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131114015912/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24928138 | archive-date=November 14, 2013 | url-status=live }} Cabinet Secretary Jose Rene Almendras said that the national government had to take over despite logistical challenges and assured it is working toward providing aid the quickest way possible to the survivors.{{cite news | url=http://www.rappler.com/nation/43658-palace-slow-relief-moving-yolanda | title=Palace aware of slow relief: 'We're moving' |work=Rappler| date=November 14, 2013 | access-date=November 14, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131115022649/http://www.rappler.com/nation/43658-palace-slow-relief-moving-yolanda | archive-date=November 15, 2013 | url-status=live }} The national Government was also criticized for putting the responsibility of handling the dead to the Bureau of Fire Protection instead to the Department of Health. Dr. Racquel Fortun, one of the forensic experts to go to the area three days after the typhoon insisted that handling of the bodies is a health matter and therefore a responsibility of DOH.{{cite web|url=http://www.iblogscience.com/lessons-from-yolanda-4-ways-to-improve-the-retrieval-and-identification-of-bodies-in-disasters/|title=Lessons from Yolanda: 4 ways to improve the retrieval and identification of bodies in disasters|work=I blog science |date=March 18, 2014 |access-date=February 10, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140506114105/http://www.iblogscience.com/lessons-from-yolanda-4-ways-to-improve-the-retrieval-and-identification-of-bodies-in-disasters/|archive-date=May 6, 2014|url-status=live}} Then mayor of Davao City, Rodrigo Duterte, who visited Tacloban, said dead bodies laid unattended for four days after Haiyan ravaged the city; tearily, he remarked "God must have been somewhere else" and said declaring a state of calamity was not sufficient.{{cite news |last1=Suarez |first1=K. D. |title=Duterte in tears after Rvisiting Tacloban |url=https://www.rappler.com/philippines/43492-duterte-in-tears-after-visiting-ravaged-tacloban/ |access-date=29 July 2024 |work=Rappler |date=12 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240729185251/https://www.rappler.com/philippines/43492-duterte-in-tears-after-visiting-ravaged-tacloban/ |archive-date=29 July 2024}}

One of the biggest controversies of Typhoon Haiyan is probably the number of victims or the body count. According to the Philippine government sources, the number of those killed during the typhoon ranges from 4,000 to 6,000 individuals while some sources claim that the body count reaches up to 15,000. Rejecting the estimate death toll of at least 10,000, Aquino gave his own estimate at 2,000 to 5,000 three days after Haiyan struck.{{cite news|newspaper=Philippine Daily Inquirer|url=http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/531519/govt-stops-yolanda-body-count-at-4011|title=Gov't stops 'Yolanda' body count at 4,011|access-date=March 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170313221425/http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/531519/govt-stops-yolanda-body-count-at-4011|archive-date=March 13, 2017|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2013/12/13/world/asia/philippines-typhoon-haiyan/|title=Typhoon Haiyan death toll tops 6,000 in the Philippines|date=December 13, 2013 |access-date=March 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170313215054/http://edition.cnn.com/2013/12/13/world/asia/philippines-typhoon-haiyan/|archive-date=March 13, 2017|url-status=live}}{{cite news|work=The Philippine Star|url=http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2015/01/05/1409522/yolanda-death-toll-high-15000-priest-says|title=Yolanda death toll as high as 15,000, priest says|access-date=March 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170313232904/http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2015/01/05/1409522/yolanda-death-toll-high-15000-priest-says|archive-date=March 13, 2017|url-status=live}}

The Aquino administration was also criticized for its inefficient distribution of funds and several government officials were accused of embezzling the money allotted for the typhoon victims. Aquino's FAiTH online portal did not track foreign aid coursed through local government units and private organizations.{{cite news |title=VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Claim that foreign donations for Yolanda victims unaudited FALSE |url=https://verafiles.org/articles/vera-files-fact-check-claim-foreign-donations-yolanda-victim |access-date=1 September 2024 |work=VERA Files |date=9 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221102234213/https://verafiles.org/articles/vera-files-fact-check-claim-foreign-donations-yolanda-victim |archive-date=November 2, 2022}} Mar Roxas, who served as Interior Secretary during the typhoon, likewise received criticism for his perceived silence on how the typhoon funds were spent.{{cite news |last1=Gonzales |first1=Yuji Vincent |title='Yolanda' reveals Roxas' failure as leader, manager—Binay camp |url=https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/721279/yolanda-reveals-roxas-failure-as-leader-manager-binay-camp |access-date=1 September 2024 |newspaper=Philippine Daily Inquirer |date=11 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150912002042/https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/721279/yolanda-reveals-roxas-failure-as-leader-manager-binay-camp |archive-date=September 12, 2015 |language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Corrales |first1=Nestor |title=Duterte slams Roxas: Where are billions of 'Yolanda' funds? |url=https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/770440/duterte-slams-roxas-where-are-billions-of-yolanda-funds |access-date=1 September 2024 |newspaper=Philippine Daily Inquirer |date=3 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304095356/https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/770440/duterte-slams-roxas-where-are-billions-of-yolanda-funds |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |language=en}} As President Aquino III stepped down from office in June 2016, his administration failed to release {{Philippine peso}}20 billion housing assistance funds for the typhoon victims.{{cite news |last1=Ager |first1=Maila |title=P20B 'Yolanda' housing fund for 2016 not released by Aquino admin |url=http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/842063/p20b-yolanda-housing-fund-for-2016-not-released-by-aquino-admin |access-date=1 September 2024 |newspaper=Philippine Daily Inquirer |date=8 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170106172158/http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/842063/p20b-yolanda-housing-fund-for-2016-not-released-by-aquino-admin |archive-date=January 6, 2017 |language=en}}

The succeeding Duterte administration expressed dismay at the delays and backlogs of the government's housing program; some Haiyan survivors called on the administration to demolish substandard units and to probe deeper into the anomalies surrounding the resettlement projects.{{cite news |last1=Reyes |first1=Ronald O. |title=Yolanda victims urge government to demolish substandard housing |url=https://www.sunstar.com.ph/tacloban/local-news/yolanda-victims-urge-government-to-demolish-substandard-housing |access-date=1 September 2024 |work=SunStar |date=11 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240901163612/https://www.sunstar.com.ph/tacloban/local-news/yolanda-victims-urge-government-to-demolish-substandard-housing |archive-date=1 September 2024 |language=en}} In 2018, coinciding the fifth year mark of the disaster, the survivors again protested against the government's slow response on rehabilitation efforts, displaying the caricature of President Rodrigo Duterte, who was the Mayor of Davao City at the time of the disaster.{{cite news |title=The World Tonight: Tacloban still reeling 5 years after 'Yolanda' |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQr3TuRT9mk |access-date=November 9, 2018 |publisher=ABS-CBN News – via YouTube|format=Note: Pause at 0:56 for Duterte's caricature}} In November 2018, the National Economic and Development Authority confirmed that the budget is under the 2016 "Yolanda" Recovery & Reconstruction Program that "remained untapped & were not released" until the expiration of the validity of the funds last December 31, 2017, during President Duterte's second year in office;{{Cite news |work=Philippine News Agency|url=http://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1055300 |title=NEDA confirms P729.6-M returned 'Yolanda' funds |access-date=February 5, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190207015103/http://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1055300 |archive-date=February 7, 2019 |url-status=live }} an environmental group criticized the Duterte administration's decision to divert {{Philippine peso}}5 billion funds for Haiyan housing to rebuild war-torn Marawi.{{cite news |title=Group blasts Duterte for rerouting Yolanda rehab budget |url=https://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/local-news/group-blasts-duterte-for-rerouting-yolanda-rehab-budget |access-date=1 September 2024 |work=SunStar |date=8 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240901165816/https://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/local-news/group-blasts-duterte-for-rerouting-yolanda-rehab-budget |archive-date=1 September 2024 |language=en}}

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The Philippines faced a humanitarian crisis days after the typhoon hit much of the Visayas with 1.8 million homeless and more than 6,000,000 displaced.{{cite web | url=https://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/11/16/245584484/shattered-but-not-shuttered-hospital-survived-typhoon-haiyan | title=Estimate Of Number Left Homeless By Typhoon Soars | publisher=NPR | date=November 16, 2013 | access-date=November 19, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131119084315/http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/11/16/245584484/shattered-but-not-shuttered-hospital-survived-typhoon-haiyan | archive-date=November 19, 2013 | url-status=live }} In Tacloban alone, ninety percent of the structures are either destroyed or damaged while other cities, such as Ormoc, are reporting similar damage.{{cite news | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24960836 | title=Typhoon Haiyan: Tacloban survivors wait for aid | publisher=BBC News | date=November 15, 2013 | access-date=November 19, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131118215628/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24960836 | archive-date=November 18, 2013 | url-status=live }} The United Nations fear that the possibility of the spread of disease is high due to the lack of food, water, shelter, and medication. Casualties have been reported as a result of the lack of aid in affected areas and the number of dead is likely to rise.{{cite news | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24972707 | title=Philippines typhoon: Aid effort gathers pace | publisher=BBC News | date=November 16, 2013 | access-date=November 19, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131118103457/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24972707 | archive-date=November 18, 2013 | url-status=live }}

As a result of the damage in Tacloban and much of Leyte, thousands of people who once lived in the area left and made their way into less affected areas such as Cebu and Manila. Catbalogan reported that their population more than doubled after the typhoon with the influx of refugees into the city.{{cite news | url=http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/ed124ba2-4dfd-11e3-8fa5-00144feabdc0.html | title=Typhoon Haiyan: Philippines reflects on traumatic week | newspaper=Financial Times | date=November 15, 2013 | access-date=November 19, 2013}} Around 20,000 people have fled to Manila as a result of the storm.{{cite news | url=http://www.rappler.com/move-ph/issues/disasters/typhoon-yolanda/45001-haiyan-survivors-flock-manila | title=Over 18,000 Haiyan survivors flock to Manila |work=Rappler| date=December 1, 2013 | access-date=December 9, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131204121440/http://www.rappler.com/move-ph/issues/disasters/typhoon-yolanda/45001-haiyan-survivors-flock-manila | archive-date=December 4, 2013 | url-status=live }}

Typhoon Haiyan has been acknowledged as a sort of "trauma milestone" for mental health awareness in the Philippines – where Filipinos had previously seen counseling as an admission of weakness, it began to be acknowledged as "a sign of how extraordinary the circumstances are."{{Cite web |title=Staying Productive Despite More Limitations |url=https://crc.uap.asia/2020/05/05/istp-productivity-wfh/ |last1=Buenafe |first1=Cyrus Paolo |last2=Tuazon |first2=Anna Cristina |editor-last=De Leon |editor-first=R. E. |website=UA&P Center for Research and Communication |series=IST Presents |date=May 4, 2020 |location=Ortigas, Pasig |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210825212806/https://crc.uap.asia/2020/05/05/istp-productivity-wfh/ |archive-date=August 25, 2021 |access-date=May 5, 2020}}

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The United Nations said it was going to increase critical relief operations as a result of the devastation caused by the typhoon. Its Manila office issued a statement that read, "Access remains a key challenge as some areas are still cut off from relief operations. Unknown numbers of survivors do not have basic necessities such as food, water, and medicines and remain inaccessible for relief operations, as roads, airports, and bridges were destroyed or covered in wreckage."{{cite web | url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-09/typhoon-haiyan-nearing-vietnam-after-killing-138-in-philippines.html | title=UN Rushes Aid as Typhoon Haiyan Leaves Philippines Counting Dead | publisher=Bloomberg News | date=November 10, 2013 | access-date=November 13, 2013 | author=Yap, Cecilia, Guinto, Joel & Bennett, Simeon | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131114035411/http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-09/typhoon-haiyan-nearing-vietnam-after-killing-138-in-philippines.html | archive-date=November 14, 2013 | url-status=live }} The United Nations also began relief operations by this time; however, the severe damage to infrastructure hampered efforts to distribute supplies. The UN activated the Cluster System, in which groups of humanitarian organizations (UN and non-UN) work to restore health, shelter, nutrition and economic activity.{{cite news| url=https://philippines.humanitarianresponse.info/system/files/documents/files/OCHA_SitRep22-Haiyan-10-Dec-2103.pdf| title=Philippines: Typhoon Haiyan Situation Report No. 22| date=December 10, 2013| access-date=December 12, 2013| newspaper=OCHA| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140125092350/https://philippines.humanitarianresponse.info/system/files/documents/files/OCHA_SitRep22-Haiyan-10-Dec-2103.pdf| archive-date=January 25, 2014| df=mdy-all}}

The World Health Organization, which leads the Health Cluster, the largest one, has developed guidance on donations of medicine and healthcare equipment so that the Philippines receives supplies appropriate for this emergency. According to WHO, many people suffered cuts, wounds, and broken bones during the disaster and others were injured in flooding that followed the typhoon.{{cite news | url=https://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2013/typhoon-haiyan-20131113/en/index.html | title=Relief arriving in the Philippines, challenges for delivery persist | date=November 15, 2013 | access-date=November 11, 2013 | work=World Health Organization | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131114135018/http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2013/typhoon-haiyan-20131113/en/index.html | archive-date=November 14, 2013 | url-status=dead }} Interpol announced that they would send in Interpol officers from Lyon to help local law enforcement identify any of the corpses that are unidentified.{{cite web | url=http://en.apa.az/xeber_interpol_sends_expertise_team_for_typhoo_202942.html | title=Interpol sends expertise team for typhoon-stricken Philippines | publisher=Azeri-Press Agency | date=November 20, 2013 | access-date=December 11, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140125125527/http://en.apa.az/xeber_interpol_sends_expertise_team_for_typhoo_202942.html | archive-date=January 25, 2014 | url-status=live }}

The World Health Organization has spearheaded initiatives among help workers, especially from the Department of Health (Philippines), in extending Psychological First Aid to people in typhoon-affected areas. WHO Representative in the country Dr Julie Hall foresees long-lasting effects from the typhoon. She calls for increased preparedness to give support to families and communities for the long-term, citing the need for more trained field workers.{{cite news | url=http://www.wpro.who.int/philippines/mediacentre/releases/20131216/en/ | title=WHO recommendations for mental health support in emergencies shared with DoH | date=December 16, 2012 | access-date=December 18, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219021822/http://www.wpro.who.int/philippines/mediacentre/releases/20131216/en/ | archive-date=December 19, 2013 | url-status=dead }}

American band Journey donated $350,000 to help relief efforts in the Philippines, and its lead singer had a message for his homeland: "Don't Stop Believin'". Arnel Pineda (the band's Filipino vocalist) and the rest of the band announced the donation on November 15, 2013. It will go to the United Nations World Food Programme, which is providing Filipinos with food assistance. The donation should provide 1.4 million meals.{{cite news|url=http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/entertainment&id=9328475 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131128063308/http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news%2Fentertainment&id=9328475 |archive-date=November 28, 2013 |title=Journey donates $350K in Typhoon Haiyan relief |work=KGO-TV |date=November 16, 2013 |agency=Associated Press |access-date=November 20, 2013 |url-status=dead }} IKEA, Walmart, Samsung, and HSBC are among those taking advantage of the event to donate to those in need.{{cite news | url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/11/16/typhoon-haiyan-tacloban-exodus/3613079/ | title=TYPHOON DEVASTATION | newspaper=USA Today | date=November 16, 2013 | access-date=September 17, 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190215221127/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/11/16/typhoon-haiyan-tacloban-exodus/3613079/ | archive-date=February 15, 2019 | url-status=live }}{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/14/typhoon-haiyan-china-aid-philippines-ikea | title=Typhoon Haiyan: China gives less aid to Philippines than Ikea | newspaper=The Guardian | date=November 14, 2013 | access-date=November 14, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131114211708/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/14/typhoon-haiyan-china-aid-philippines-ikea | archive-date=November 14, 2013 | url-status=live }} Northwestern Mutual announced they will donate $100,000 to the American Red Cross.{{cite news | url=http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/northwestern-mutual-aids-philippines-with-100000-grant-to-american-red-cross-232665601.html | title=Northwestern Mutual aids Philippines with $100,000 grant to American Red Cross | work=Northwestern Mutual | date=November 20, 2013 | agency=PR Newswire | access-date=November 20, 2013 |type=Press release | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131128062457/http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/northwestern-mutual-aids-philippines-with-100000-grant-to-american-red-cross-232665601.html | archive-date=November 28, 2013 | url-status=live }} The Coca-Cola Company says they have donated $2.5 million of their advertising budget to the relief efforts as of November 25.{{cite news | url=https://huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/25/coke-ads-philippines-_n_4338746.html | title=Coke Suspends Ad Campaign For Best Reason You Could Imagine | work=The Huffington Post | date=November 25, 2013 | access-date=November 28, 2013 | last=Goldberg | first=Eleanor | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131128041438/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/25/coke-ads-philippines-_n_4338746.html | archive-date=November 28, 2013 | url-status=live }} By mid-December, FIFA donated $1 million.{{cite web | url=http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/sport/football-fifa-gives-us-1m/921072.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140125181321/http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/sport/football-fifa-gives-us-1m/921072.html | archive-date=January 25, 2014 | title=Football: FIFA gives US$1m aid for Philippines football | publisher=Channel News Asia | date=December 13, 2013 | access-date=December 13, 2013}} DHL deployed its Asia Pacific Disaster Response Team to the disaster areas to provide on-the-ground logistics support to assist with the relief effort in the aftermath of the devastating Typhoon Haiyan. Three rotating teams made up of volunteer employees from the Asia Pacific region were based at the Mactan Cebu Airport on Cebu island, providing support and assistance to the country's most affected areas west of Leyte Island, including Guiuan, Roxas, and Tacloban.{{cite news | url=http://www.transglobalexpress.co.uk/news/332/ | title=DHL deploys Disaster Response Team to support Philippines relief and recovery effort following Typhoon Haiyan | publisher=Transglobal express | date=November 18, 2013 | access-date=January 10, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140113061917/http://www.transglobalexpress.co.uk/news/332/ | archive-date=January 13, 2014 | url-status=live }} Many smaller initiatives were founded as well – e.g. to prepare by donating to children a typhoon-ready backpack as a floating device.{{cite web|url=https://www.betterplace.org/en/projects/36802-taclob-give-a-child-a-typhoon-ready-backpack|title=Taclob – Give a child a typhoon-ready backpack|work=betterplace.org – Change the world with your donation|access-date=February 10, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314035151/https://www.betterplace.org/en/projects/36802-taclob-give-a-child-a-typhoon-ready-backpack|archive-date=March 14, 2016|url-status=live}} Medical Doctors in global health like Edmond Fernandes who worked in service of the people of Philippines recalled that broken hearts and shattered dreams existed everywhere with widespread devastation.{{Cite news |date=2013-12-20 |title='Broken hearts and shattered dreams everywhere' |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangaluru/broken-hearts-and-shattered-dreams-everywhere/articleshow/27673697.cms |access-date=2024-01-28 |work=The Times of India |issn=0971-8257}}{{Cite web |last=DHNS |title='It's all shattered dreams and broken hearts in Typhoon hit Philippines' |url=https://www.deccanherald.com/india/karnataka/its-all-shattered-dreams-broken-2169368 |access-date=2024-01-28 |website=Deccan Herald |language=en}}

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Sixteen-time NBA Champions Los Angeles Lakers donated $150,000{{cite web|url=http://www.nbclosangeles.com/blogs/triple-threat/Lakers-Give-Philippine-Super-Typhoon-231949691.html|title=Lakers Helping Philippine Super Typhoon Victims|website=nbclosangeles.com|date=November 14, 2013 |access-date=May 25, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170929003847/http://www.nbclosangeles.com/blogs/triple-threat/Lakers-Give-Philippine-Super-Typhoon-231949691.html|archive-date=September 29, 2017|url-status=live}} to the Philippine Red Cross to aid the typhoon-affected victims. During their home game against the Memphis Grizzlies, Kobe Bryant handed the check to the Junior NBA players representing the Philippines. His teammate, Pau Gasol, pledged to donate $1,000 per point to UNICEF{{cite web|url=http://www.nbclosangeles.com/blogs/triple-threat/Lakers_Warriors_Pau-Gasol-donates-Philippines-233121881.html|title=Lakers Win, Gasol Donates $24,000 to Philippines|website=nbclosangeles.com|date=November 23, 2013 |access-date=May 25, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170929005659/http://www.nbclosangeles.com/blogs/triple-threat/Lakers_Warriors_Pau-Gasol-donates-Philippines-233121881.html|archive-date=September 29, 2017|url-status=live}} with the directive to help victims of Super Typhoon Haiyan in the country as well. He scored 24 points in a won game against the Golden State Warriors. Major League Baseball donated $200,000 to UNICEF and the American Red Cross, with Commissioner Bud Selig encouraging fans to donate to the organizations.{{cite news | url=http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20131114&content_id=63913314&vkey=pr_mlb&c_id=mlb | title=Major League Baseball donates $200,000 to support disaster relief efforts in Philippines | work=Major League Baseball | date=November 14, 2013 | access-date=November 14, 2013 |type=Press release | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131128061846/http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20131114&content_id=63913314&vkey=pr_mlb&c_id=mlb | archive-date=November 28, 2013 | url-status=live }} UNICEF delivered portable toilets and hygiene supplies to the region and also appealed for $34 million to help the four million children affected.{{cite web | url=http://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/19/travel/world-toilet-day/?hpt=hp_bn5 | title=World Toilet Day aims to improve sanitation for 2.5 billion | publisher=CNN | date=November 19, 2013 | access-date=November 19, 2013 | last=Cha | first=Frances | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131128065333/http://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/19/travel/world-toilet-day/?hpt=hp_bn5 | archive-date=November 28, 2013 | url-status=live }} The American Red Cross announced that they collected $11 million in donations for the Philippines Relief Fund.{{cite news | url=https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/11/red-cross-philippines-relief-fund-tops-11-million/ | title=Red Cross: Philippines Relief Fund Tops $11 Million | publisher=ABC News | date=November 14, 2013 | access-date=November 20, 2013 | last=Cohan | first=Josh | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131119140810/https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/11/red-cross-philippines-relief-fund-tops-11-million/ | archive-date=November 19, 2013 | url-status=live }} Mercy Corps dispatched an "emergency response" team to help with humanitarian efforts.{{cite news | url=http://www.oregonlive.com/today/index.ssf/2013/11/portland-based_mercy_corps_sen.html | title=Portland-based Mercy Corps sends team responding to Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines | work=The Oregonian | date=November 19, 2013 | access-date=November 20, 2013 | last=Read | first=Richard | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113233809/http://www.oregonlive.com/today/index.ssf/2013/11/portland-based_mercy_corps_sen.html | archive-date=November 13, 2013 | url-status=live }} MAP International launched medical relief efforts providing over $10 million in medicines and supplies to the Philippines.

Among the NGO responses, among the most comprehensive disaster response came from the Taiwan-based {{cite web | url=http://www.tzuchi.org.ph/newsite/ | title=Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129060620/http://www.tzuchi.org.ph/newsite/ | archive-date=November 29, 2014 | df=mdy-all }}, which organized a large-scale cash-for-work program in Tacloban from Nov 20 to Dec 8 with up to 31,000 participants per day, totaling nearly 300,000-day shifts. This operation not only helped clean out the thousands of tons of debris covering the city, but also kick-started the local economy. Tzu Chi also contributed emergency cash aid of 8000, 12000 or 15000 pesos depending on family size for over 60,000 families in the affected areas of Tacloban, Ormoc, Palo, Tanauan and Tunga, and has been providing free clinics, hot meals, and temporary classrooms for over 15 schools in the area. Doctors Without Borders is sending 200 tons of aid.{{cite news|url=http://www.news24.com/World/News/World-comes-to-aid-of-Haiyan-victims-20131111 |title=World comes to aid of Haiyan victims |work=News24 |date=November 11, 2013 |agency=Agence France-Presse |access-date=November 11, 2013}} The International Society for Krishna Consciousness's Food For Life Global, the world's largest vegan food relief organisation, raised money and provided vegan meals in the Philippines to Typhoon Haiyan survivors.{{cite web | url=http://www.ffl.org/2013/urgent-help-needed-for-victims-of-typhoon-haiyan/ | title=URGENT Help Needed for Survivors of Typhoon Haiyan | work=Food for Life Global - Uniting the World Through Pure Food | publisher=Hare Krishna Food for Life | date=November 10, 2013 | access-date=November 15, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131128061505/http://www.ffl.org/2013/urgent-help-needed-for-victims-of-typhoon-haiyan/ | archive-date=November 28, 2013 | url-status=live }}{{cite web | url=http://www.ffl.org/2013/food-for-life-serving-hot-vegan-pasta-to-kids-in-the-philippines/ | title=Food for Life serving hot vegan pasta to kids in the Philippines | publisher=Hare Krishna Food for Life | date=November 11, 2013 | access-date=November 15, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131128061433/http://www.ffl.org/2013/food-for-life-serving-hot-vegan-pasta-to-kids-in-the-philippines/ | archive-date=November 28, 2013 | url-status=live }} Other NGOs run by faith-based organisations that raised money and/or aided in the disaster relief efforts of Typhoon Haiyan included Catholic Relief Services,{{cite news | url=http://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/09/world/iyw-how-to-help-typhoon-haiyan/index.html | title=How to help Typhoon Haiyan survivors | publisher=CNN | date=November 14, 2013 | access-date=November 15, 2013 | author1=Dawson, Christopher | author2=Grubb, Jennifer | name-list-style=amp | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131114181034/http://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/09/world/iyw-how-to-help-typhoon-haiyan/index.html | archive-date=November 14, 2013 | url-status=live }} Catholic Medical Mission Board (CMMB), Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), LDS Philanthropies,{{cite web | url=http://www.ldsphilanthropies.org/humanitarian-services/news-features/emergency-relief-for-typhoon.html | title=Emergency Relief for Typhoon Haiyan | publisher=LDS Philanthropies | access-date=November 8, 2013 | date=November 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112193912/http://www.ldsphilanthropies.org/humanitarian-services/news-features/emergency-relief-for-typhoon.html | archive-date=November 12, 2013 | url-status=live }} American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJJDC), Samaritan's Purse, Salvation Army, Christian Children's Fund of Canada, MAP International and World Vision. International Responders for Emergencies and Disasters endured the storm and despite losing equipment and personnel, they contributed to over $100,000 in aid and supplied rescuer workers for 3 months.{{Cite web|url=http://ired.us/|title=IRED – International Responders for Emergencies and Disasters|access-date=September 9, 2020|archive-date=October 1, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001084950/http://ired.us/|url-status=dead}}

The Iglesia ni Cristo (INC), the largest indigenous Christian church based in the Philippines held a series of massive relief distributions and medical and dental missions to affected population of the storm to different parts of Visayas.{{cite web | url=http://www.eaglenews.ph/inc-conducts-second-phase-of-massive-relief-distributions-in-leyte/ | title=INC conducts second phase of massive relief distributions in Leyte | date=November 27, 2013 | access-date=December 3, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150208035730/http://www.eaglenews.ph/inc-conducts-second-phase-of-massive-relief-distributions-in-leyte/ | archive-date=February 8, 2015 | url-status=live }} The humanitarian mission was done under the [https://web.archive.org/web/20140218012937/http://www.kabayankokapatidko.org/ "Lingap sa Mamamayan" (Aid for Humanity)] project in cooperation with the Felix Y. Manalo (FYM) Foundation Inc., the INC's charitable arm.{{cite news | work=The Philippine Star|url=http://www.philstar.com/nation/2013/12/06/1264570/inc-conducts-relief-medical-mission-tacloban | title=INC conducts relief, medical mission in Tacloban | date=November 8, 2013 | access-date=December 6, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131207062026/http://www.philstar.com/nation/2013/12/06/1264570/inc-conducts-relief-medical-mission-tacloban | archive-date=December 7, 2013 | url-status=live }}{{cite web | url=http://www.eaglenews.ph/iglesia-ni-cristo-conducts-last-leg-relief-distribution-yolanda-survivors-hernani-samar/ | title=Iglesia ni Cristo conducts last leg of relief distribution for Yolanda survivors in Hernani, Samar | date=December 1, 2013 | access-date=December 26, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150208035728/http://www.eaglenews.ph/iglesia-ni-cristo-conducts-last-leg-relief-distribution-yolanda-survivors-hernani-samar/ | archive-date=February 8, 2015 | url-status=live }} The church conducted the largest walk for a cause in the world (walkathon) on February 15, 2014, dubbed as 'Iglesia ni Cristo World Wide Walk for Those Affected by Typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan'.{{cite web | url=http://www.inewmedia.org/worldwide-walk-cause-yolanda-survivors/5961/ | title=INC to Stage the Largest Worldwide Walk for Yolanda(Haiyan) Survivors | date=January 9, 2014 | access-date=February 12, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140213064644/http://www.inewmedia.org/worldwide-walk-cause-yolanda-survivors/5961/ | archive-date=February 13, 2014 | url-status=live }}{{cite web | url=http://www.metrokelan.com/charities-and-fundraising/worldwide-walk-for-yolanda-haiyan-victims_i1026 | title=Worldwide walk For Yolanda / Haiyan Victims (Charities and Fundraising) | date=February 15, 2014 | access-date=February 12, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221171652/http://www.metrokelan.com/charities-and-fundraising/worldwide-walk-for-yolanda-haiyan-victims_i1026 | archive-date=February 21, 2014 | url-status=live }} The walk for a cause raised millions of money to help the victims of the super typhoon for the construction of their houses and shelters. The aim of the activity is to make the world understand that Haiyan survivors are still in dire need of help and financial assistance. Indeed, the worldwide walk caught the attention of the world when it broke two Guinness world records as the largest charity walk in a single venue (Manila, Philippines) with 175,000 participants, and largest charity walk in 24 hours for multiple venues (from Christchurch, New Zealand to Hawaii, USA) in 13 time zones, 54 countries, 24 hours with 519,521 participants.{{cite web | url=http://www.interaksyon.com/article/80854/iglesia-ni-cristos-worldwide-walk-breaks-2-guinness-world-records | title=Iglesia ni Cristo's Worldwide Walk breaks 2 Guinness world records | date=February 15, 2014 | access-date=February 16, 2014 | work=Philippine News Agency | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140217104556/http://www.interaksyon.com/article/80854/iglesia-ni-cristos-worldwide-walk-breaks-2-guinness-world-records | archive-date=February 17, 2014 | df=mdy-all }}{{cite news | work=Manila Bulletin|url=http://www.mb.com.ph/inc-smashes-guinness-record/ | title=INC smashes Guinness Record | date=February 15, 2014 | access-date=February 16, 2014 | author=Leslie Ann Aquino | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140302060711/http://www.mb.com.ph/inc-smashes-guinness-record/ | archive-date=March 2, 2014 | url-status=live }}

Celebrities such as David and Victoria Beckham,{{cite news | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25037495 | title=Typhoon Haiyan: Beckhams' clothes sale prompts queues | publisher=BBC News | date=November 22, 2013 | access-date=November 22, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131121224834/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25037495 | archive-date=November 21, 2013 | url-status=live }} Stephen Colbert,{{cite web | url=http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/522811/20131118/stephen-colbert-philippines-china-haiyan-yolanda-report.htm#.UpCHa8SpWSp | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131121155145/http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/522811/20131118/stephen-colbert-philippines-china-haiyan-yolanda-report.htm#.UpCHa8SpWSp | url-status=dead | archive-date=November 21, 2013 | title=Stephen Colbert Mocks China's Donation To Philippines, Raises Over $100K For Haiyan Victims [VIDEO] | website=International Business Times | date=November 18, 2013 | access-date=November 18, 2013 | author=Lu, Anne }} Kim Kardashian,{{Cite web |date=2013-11-22 |title=Kim Kardashian Donates 10% Of Her Auction Profits To Typhoon Relief |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kim-kardashian-donates-10-of-her-auction-profits-to-typhoon-relief_n_5b55f66be4b086f60991b41d |access-date=2024-09-01 |website=HuffPost |language=en}} David Guetta,{{cite news | url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2013/11/22/david-guetta-shows-love-with-campaign-for-philippines-the-world-needs-more/3666655/ | title=David Guetta shows #love for Philippines | newspaper=USA Today | date=November 22, 2013 | access-date=November 22, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131125162250/http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2013/11/22/david-guetta-shows-love-with-campaign-for-philippines-the-world-needs-more/3666655/ | archive-date=November 25, 2013 | url-status=live }} and The X Factor contributed to the fundraising.{{cite web | url=http://guardianlv.com/2013/11/philippines-helped-by-voting-and-downloads-on-x-factor/ | title=Philippines Helped by Voting and Downloads on X Factor | publisher=Las Vegas Guardian Express | date=November 16, 2013 | access-date=November 16, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131118234022/http://guardianlv.com/2013/11/philippines-helped-by-voting-and-downloads-on-x-factor/ | archive-date=November 18, 2013 | url-status=live }} On November 26, iTunes released a compilation album entitled Songs for the Philippines featuring different artists, including Katy Perry, Madonna, Bob Dylan, and The Beatles.{{cite news | url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2013/11/25/songs-for-the-philippines-album-compilation/3704555/ | title=New album uses hit songs to aid Philippines | work=USA Today | date=November 25, 2013 | access-date=November 28, 2013 | last=Desta | first=Yohana | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131129101402/http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2013/11/25/songs-for-the-philippines-album-compilation/3704555/ | archive-date=November 29, 2013 | url-status=live }} All proceeds will go to the Philippine Red Cross. OneRepublic donated $100,000 on November 30, 2013.{{cite news | url=http://www.express.co.uk/news/showbiz/446012/OneRepublic-donate-to-Philippines-relief-efforts | title=OneRepublic donate to Philippines relief efforts | newspaper=Daily Express | date=November 30, 2013 | access-date=November 30, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131130154054/http://www.express.co.uk/news/showbiz/446012/OneRepublic-donate-to-Philippines-relief-efforts | archive-date=November 30, 2013 | url-status=live }} Other celebrities that offered their support included Linkin Park, The Offspring,{{cite magazine | url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/5820116/linkin-park-offspring-to-play-fundraising-concert-for-the-philippines | title=Linkin Park, Offspring to Play Fundraising 'Concert for the Philippines' | magazine=Billboard | date=December 12, 2013 | access-date=December 12, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213001938/http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/5820116/linkin-park-offspring-to-play-fundraising-concert-for-the-philippines | archive-date=December 13, 2013 | url-status=live }} Alicia Keys,{{cite news | url=http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/se-asia/story/typhoon-haiyan-singer-alicia-keys-visits-refugees-philippines-20131125 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140125160122/http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/se-asia/story/typhoon-haiyan-singer-alicia-keys-visits-refugees-philippines-20131125 | archive-date=January 25, 2014 | title=Typhoon Haiyan: Singer Alicia Keys visits refugees in Philippines | newspaper=The Straits Times | date=November 25, 2013 | access-date=November 25, 2013}} and Justin Bieber.{{cite news | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/celebrity-news-video/10512750/Justin-Bieber-sings-for-Typhoon-Haiyan-victims.html | title=Justin Bieber sings for Typhoon Haiyan victims | newspaper=The Daily Telegraph | date=December 12, 2013 | access-date=December 12, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131212153611/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/celebrity-news-video/10512750/Justin-Bieber-sings-for-Typhoon-Haiyan-victims.html | archive-date=December 12, 2013 | url-status=dead }} To promote 20th Century Fox's upcoming film The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, the studio hired YouTube personality & filmmaker Casey Neistat to make a promotional video based on the theme, "live your dreams", but Neistat suggested instead to spend the budget on bringing disaster relief to the Philippines. Fox agreed and gave him a budget of $25,000 to fund his relief plans, and personally visited Tacloban to aid donation efforts there.{{cite web | author = Francesca Bacardi | date = December 16, 2013 | title = Fox marketing/advertising funds used for Philippines typhoon relief | url = https://variety.com/2013/film/news/walter-mitty-advertising-budget-used-for-disaster-relief-video-1200965334/ |work=Variety}}{{YouTube|jU7rhVub0rU}}

On the day of his death, actor Paul Walker attended a charity event for his organization, Reach Out Worldwide, for the victims of the typhoon that was held right before his accident.{{cite news | url=http://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/30/showbiz/actor-paul-walker-dies/ | title='Fast and Furious' star Paul Walker dies in car accident | publisher=CNN | date=November 30, 2013 | access-date=November 30, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131201170456/http://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/30/showbiz/actor-paul-walker-dies/ | archive-date=December 1, 2013 | url-status=live }}

On March 11, 2014, a benefit concert called [http://www.pinoyrelief.com/pinoyconcert The Pinoy Relief Benefit Concert] was held at Madison Square Garden in New York, City. Jennifer Hudson, Pentatonix, A Great Big World, Plain White T's, Jessica Sanchez, Charice, and REO Brothers performed. Special guests also included Dr. Oz, Dante Basco, Bobby Lopez, Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Apl.de.ap. 100% of proceeds raised directly went to the Typhoon Haiyan survivors.{{cite news | url=http://www.rappler.com/entertainment/52696-charice-pempengco-jessica-sanchez-nyc-yolanda-relief-concert | title=Charice, Jessica Sanchez others in NYC Yolanda relief concert |work=Rappler.com | date=March 11, 2014 | access-date=March 11, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140313064005/http://www.rappler.com/entertainment/52696-charice-pempengco-jessica-sanchez-nyc-yolanda-relief-concert | archive-date=March 13, 2014 | url-status=live }} [http://www.pinoyrelief.com Pinoy Relief] was created to help survivors and focus on three specific areas: restoring livelihoods, building classrooms and providing shelter in partnership with local NGOs, Habitat for Humanity Philippines and Operation Blessing Philippines.{{cite web | url=http://asianjournal.com/aj-magazines/pinoy-relief-benefit-concert-madison-square-garden-empowering-typhoon-victims-to-get-back-on-their-feet/ | title=Pinoy Relief Benefit Concert @ Madison Square Garden – Empowering Typhoon Victims to Get Back on Their Feet | publisher=AsianJournal.com | date=March 21, 2014 | access-date=March 21, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140327180405/http://asianjournal.com/aj-magazines/pinoy-relief-benefit-concert-madison-square-garden-empowering-typhoon-victims-to-get-back-on-their-feet/ | archive-date=March 27, 2014 | url-status=dead }}

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On March 13, 2016, former US vice president Al Gore, visited Tacloban and delivered his speech in front of the survivors of Haiyan. He also visited the MV Eva Jocelyn, a cargo ship forced inland during the typhoon and now converted into a memorial park.{{cite news|url=http://news.abs-cbn.com/nation/regions/03/13/16/al-gore-visits-yolanda-ground-zero|title=Al Gore visits 'Yolanda' ground zero|work=ABS-CBN News|date=March 13, 2016|access-date=March 13, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313190241/http://news.abs-cbn.com/nation/regions/03/13/16/al-gore-visits-yolanda-ground-zero|archive-date=March 13, 2016|url-status=live}}

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Media reports initially noted the disparate aid responses by the United States and China against the backdrop of rising tensions between the Philippines and China over the two countries's competing territorial claims in the South China Sea.{{cite web | url=http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/SEA-01-131113.html | title=US gives, China withholds in Philippine crisis | publisher=Asia Times | date=November 13, 2013 | access-date=November 15, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113145653/http://atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/SEA-01-131113.html | archive-date=November 13, 2013 | url-status=unfit }}{{cite web | url=http://blogs.cfr.org/asia/2013/11/13/typhoon-haiyan-the-philippines-the-united-states-and-china/ | title=Typhoon Haiyan, the Philippines, the United States, and China | publisher=Council of Foreign Relations | date=November 13, 2013 | access-date=November 15, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131116224101/http://blogs.cfr.org/asia/2013/11/13/typhoon-haiyan-the-philippines-the-united-states-and-china/ | archive-date=November 16, 2013 | url-status=live }} Fox News initially criticized China for its contribution of US$100,000 cash each from the government and the Chinese Red Cross to the typhoon victims, which led to commentary about its disputes with the Philippines.{{cite web | url=https://www.foxnews.com/world/amid-territorial-spat-with-manila-chinas-paltry-offer-of-typhoon-aid-threatens-global-image/ | title=Amid territorial spat with Manila, China's paltry offer of typhoon aid threatens global image | publisher=Fox News | date=November 14, 2013 | access-date=November 15, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131114163602/http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/11/14/amid-territorial-spat-with-manila-china-paltry-offer-typhoon-aid-threatens/ | archive-date=November 14, 2013 | url-status=live }} Earlier in 2013, the Philippines sued China over the nine-dash line. Western commentators attributed this low amount to China's intentions to isolate the Philippines while strengthening its ties with the rest of Southeast Asia.{{cite news | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24938874 | title=China's Philippine aid controversy | publisher=BBC News | date=November 14, 2013 | access-date=November 15, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131114191659/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24938874 | archive-date=November 14, 2013 | url-status=live }} The move elicited mixed reactions from the Chinese public and government with some commending its decision while others, such as Global Times, a tabloid newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party, insisted that China should behave like a responsible power. China later increased its contributions by US$1.64 million{{cite magazine | url=https://world.time.com/2013/11/13/china-to-philippines-here-have-a-measly-100000-in-aid/ | title=China to Philippines: Here, Have a Measly $100,000 in Aid | magazine=Time | date=November 13, 2013 | access-date=November 15, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131115003535/http://world.time.com/2013/11/13/china-to-philippines-here-have-a-measly-100000-in-aid/ | archive-date=November 15, 2013 | url-status=live }} and sent its naval hospital ship Peace Ark for disaster relief.

As part of its relief operations named "Operation Damayan",{{cite news |last1=Hoarn |first1=Steven |title=Operation Damayan: The U.S. Response to Typhoon Haiyan |url=https://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/operation-damayan-the-u-s-response-to-typhoon-haiyan-photos/ |access-date=1 September 2024 |work=Defense Media Network |date=November 18, 2013}} the United States gave the Philippines aid worth US$51.9 million and deployed the United States Marines, United States Navy and United States Air Force to assist with the humanitarian operations.{{cite web | url=http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/521790/20131113/haiyan-super-typhoon-warships-britain-send-philippines.htm#.UoS_mxqpWSo | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131114101857/http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/521790/20131113/haiyan-super-typhoon-warships-britain-send-philippines.htm#.UoS_mxqpWSo | url-status=dead | archive-date=November 14, 2013 | title=Haiyan: U.S., Britain Send Warships to Philippines as New Weather Disturbance Threatens Relief Operations | website=The International Business Times | date=November 13, 2013 | access-date=November 15, 2013 }} Amidst territorial disputes with China in the South China Sea, the Philippine government under the Aquino III administration saw the U.S. typhoon military assistance as an opportunity to allow deployment of U.S. military troops within the country.{{cite journal |last1=Yamada |first1=Seiji |title=Hearts and Minds: Typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan and the Use of Humanitarian Assistance/Disaster Relief to Further Strategic Ends |journal=Social Medicine |date=July 2017 |volume=11 |issue=2 |pages=76–82 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318260920 |access-date=1 September 2024}}{{cite web | url=http://www.businessinsider.com/relief-mission-in-the-philippines-has-strategic-implications-2013-11 | title=The US Disaster Relief Mission In The Philippines Has Big Strategic Implications | website=The Business Insider | date=November 13, 2013 | access-date=November 15, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131114013539/http://www.businessinsider.com/relief-mission-in-the-philippines-has-strategic-implications-2013-11 | archive-date=November 14, 2013 | url-status=live }} A few months later, the Aquino administration signed with U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines Philip Goldberg a 10-year Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement, a gift to U.S. president Barack Obama.{{cite news |last1=Burgonio |first1=TJ A. |last2=Esguerra |first2=Christian V. |title=No firm commitment from US to defend PH |url=https://globalnation.inquirer.net/103033/no-firm-commitment-from-us-to-defend-ph |access-date=1 September 2024 |newspaper=Philippine Daily Inquirer |date=29 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140430043258/https://globalnation.inquirer.net/103033/no-firm-commitment-from-us-to-defend-ph |archive-date=April 30, 2014 |language=en}} An article in the journal Social Medicine said this was part of the "Asia pivot" that the United States government had previously announced, a foreign policy strategy it viewed as a plan to contain China, encircle it militarily, and prevent it from competing with American political influence in the region.{{Cite journal|last=Yamada|first=Seiji|date=July 4, 2017|title=Hearts and Minds: Typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan and the Use of Humanitarian Assistance/Disaster Relief to Further Strategic Ends|url=http://socialmedicine.info/index.php/socialmedicine/article/view/916|journal=Social Medicine|volume=11|issue=2|pages=76–83|issn=1557-7112|access-date=July 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170929011215/http://socialmedicine.info/index.php/socialmedicine/article/view/916|archive-date=September 29, 2017|url-status=live}}

Following Typhoon Haiyan's landfall in Vietnam, widespread search and rescue missions took place in the affected provinces. Damage assessments were also conducted in 13 provinces to determine what aid was needed. The IFRC began distribution of relief supplies and assisted residents in returning home by November 12. Operations regarding the aftermath of Typhoon Wutip were temporarily suspended due to Haiyan.

Political leaders and climate scientists connected the typhoon to climate change, both at the time and subsequently{{cite news|last1=Borenstein|first1=Seth|title=Global warming seen as more concrete, urgent problem since Kyoto|url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/global-warming-seen-as-more-concrete-urgent-problem-since-kyoto/|access-date=January 26, 2016|agency=Associated Press|publisher=PBS Newshour|date=November 29, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170929032759/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/global-warming-seen-as-more-concrete-urgent-problem-since-kyoto/|archive-date=September 29, 2017|url-status=live}} and led to calls for climate justice.{{Cite journal|last1=Yamada|first1=Seiji|last2=Galat|first2=Absalon|date=Oct 2014|title=Typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan and Climate Justice|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/disaster-medicine-and-public-health-preparedness/article/typhoon-yolandahaiyan-and-climate-justice/0F30290EB22C367D10652E3F44382B06|journal=Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness|volume=8|issue=5|pages=432–435|doi=10.1017/dmp.2014.97|pmid=25310517|s2cid=206206571|issn=1935-7893|access-date=July 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170901102811/https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/disaster-medicine-and-public-health-preparedness/article/typhoon-yolandahaiyan-and-climate-justice/0F30290EB22C367D10652E3F44382B06|archive-date=September 1, 2017|url-status=live}} The 2013 United Nations Climate Change Conference was coincidentally in progress when the typhoon struck and Yeb Saño, the lead negotiator of the Philippines delegation, received a standing ovation at the conference when he declared a hunger strike.

{{Blockquote|text=In solidarity with my countrymen who are struggling to find food back home, I will now commence a voluntary fasting for the climate; this means I will voluntarily refrain from eating food during this COP, until a meaningful outcome is in sight. |author=Yeb Saño{{cite news |last=McGrath |first=Matt |title=Typhoon prompts 'fast' by Philippines climate delegate |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24899647 |access-date=November 12, 2013 |newspaper=BBC |date=November 11, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112024029/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24899647 |archive-date=November 12, 2013 |url-status=live }}}}

Several delegates, including American delegate Collin Reese, joined him in fasting. Sixty people from Climate Action Network, an umbrella group of environmental non-governmental organisations, also joined the hunger strike.{{cite news | url=http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/focus/11/14/13/more-delegates-hunger-strike-un-climate-talks | title=More delegates on hunger strike at UN climate talks |work=ABS-CBN News| date=November 14, 2013 | access-date=November 15, 2013 | first=Ryan | last=Chua | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131115054442/http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/focus/11/14/13/more-delegates-hunger-strike-un-climate-talks | archive-date=November 15, 2013 | url-status=live }}

The correlation between the increasing intensity of storms and the progression of climate change was discussed by climate scientists. "Typhoons, hurricanes and all tropical storms draw their vast energy from the warmth of the sea. We know sea-surface temperatures are warming pretty much around the planet, so that's a pretty direct influence of climate change on the nature of the storm", said Will Steffen, director of the Australian National University climate change institute.{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/12/typhoon-haiyan-climate-change-blame-philippines | title=Is climate change to blame for Typhoon Haiyan? | newspaper=The Guardian | date=November 12, 2013 | access-date=November 14, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131114065403/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/12/typhoon-haiyan-climate-change-blame-philippines | archive-date=November 14, 2013 | url-status=live }} Myles Allen, head of the climate dynamics group at the University of Oxford, said that "The current consensus is that climate change is not making the risk of hurricanes any greater, but there are physical arguments and evidence that there is a risk of more intense hurricanes." The Huffington Post made the point that the 70% deforestation of the Philippines since 1900, as reported by the national Forest Management Bureau, made far more lethal flooding from cyclones like Haiyan more likely.{{cite news | url=https://huffingtonpost.com/mary-ellen-harte/climate-change-this-week_b_4266391.html | title=Climate Change This Week: Super Typhoon, Calls to Action, and More! | work=The Huffington Post | date=November 13, 2013 | access-date=November 14, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131128080635/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-ellen-harte/climate-change-this-week_b_4266391.html | archive-date=November 28, 2013 | url-status=live }} The IPCC Fifth Assessment Report had stated in September of the same year that "Time series of cyclone indices such as power dissipation, an aggregate compound of tropical cyclone frequency, duration, and intensity that measures total wind energy by tropical cyclones, show upward trends in the North Atlantic and weaker upward trends in the western North Pacific since the late 1970s."

A detailed analysis of Typhoon Haiyan and its destruction in the Philippines was featured in a documentary called Megastorm: World's Biggest Typhoon. It aired on December 30, 2013, on Discovery Channel.{{cite press release | url=http://press.discovery.com/uk/dsc/programs/megastorm-worlds-biggest-typhoon/ | title=Megastorm: World's Biggest Typhoon | publisher=Discovery Channel | access-date=December 23, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224104647/http://press.discovery.com/uk/dsc/programs/megastorm-worlds-biggest-typhoon/ | archive-date=December 24, 2013 | url-status=live }}

The 2014 documentary Six Hours: Surviving Typhoon Yolanda, produced by Big Monster Entertainment and distributed by GRB Entertainment, also features the eyewitness account of the typhoon by GMA News reporter (now Frontline Pilipinas and Agripreneur host) Jiggy Manicad. The documentary also give permission to Marnie Manicad Productions Inc.{{cite news|url=https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/newstv/newstvspecials/383482/six-hours-surviving-typhoon-yolanda/story/|title=Six Hours: Surviving Typhoon Yolanda|website=GMA News|date=October 14, 2014|access-date=October 5, 2020}}{{IMDb title|qid=Q127694713|title=Six Hours: Surviving Typhoon Yolanda}}

An episode of the PBS science documentary television program Nova titled "Killer Typhoon", aired on January 22, 2014, features the typhoon.{{cite episode|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DxYbnWmM-0|title=Killer Typhoon|series=Nova|network=PBS|airdate=January 22, 2014|season=41|access-date=October 5, 2020|via=YouTube}}

The 2015 drama film Taklob, directed by Brillante Mendoza features the survivors in the aftermath of the typhoon.{{cite news|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/taklub-cannes-review-796465|title='Taklub' : Cannes Review|work=The Hollywood Reporter|access-date=October 5, 2020|date=May 19, 2015}}

In 2021, a drama related to Typhoon Haiyan titled Kun Maupay Man It Panahon lit. “Whether the weather is fine” which is directed by Carlo Francisco Manatad which aired on August 9, 2021.

In 2014, Hong Kong RTHK TV program Meterorology Series IV Epsoide 1 Typhoon is coming is broadcast Typhoon Haiyan in Tacloban.[https://my.weather.gov.hk/en/Press-Releases/101945/Meteorology-Series-IV-to-be-launched-on-April-26 "Meteorology Series IV" to be launched on April 26]

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• 2013 Bohol earthquake – rocked Leyte's neighboring islands of Bohol and Cebu less than a month before Haiyan struck
• Typhoons in the Philippines
• Typhoon Axel (Garding; 1994) – last typhoon to make landfall over Leyte prior to Haiyan
• Tropical Storm Thelma (Uring; 1991) – second deadliest Philippine tropical cyclone{{cite web | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/philippines/10435023/Typhoon-Haiyan-10-deadliest-typhoons-in-Philippines.html | title=Typhoon Haiyan: 10 deadliest typhoons in Philippines | publisher=The Daily Telegraph | agency=Agence France-Presse | date=November 8, 2013 | access-date=December 12, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112082744/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/philippines/10435023/Typhoon-Haiyan-10-deadliest-typhoons-in-Philippines.html | archive-date=November 12, 2013 | url-status=live }}{{cite web|url=http://kidlat.pagasa.dost.gov.ph/cab/tc_deaths.htm |title=5 tropical cyclones have caused most deaths in the Philippines |publisher=Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration |access-date=December 12, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111230223629/http://kidlat.pagasa.dost.gov.ph/cab/tc_deaths.htm |archive-date=December 30, 2011 }}
• Typhoon Son-Tinh (Ofel; 2012) – Struck the same area during the previous year, and had a track similar to Haiyan's.
• Typhoon Rammasun (Glenda: 2014) – First major typhoon to hit the Philippines since Haiyan 8 months prior.
• Typhoon Mangkhut (Ompong; 2018) – Made landfall in northern Luzon as a Category 5-equivalent super typhoon
• Typhoon Phanfone (Ursula; 2019) – Traversed almost the same areas as Haiyan but also had a similar track.
• Typhoon Goni (Rolly; 2020) – the strongest landfalling storm on record, making landfall in Bato, Catanduanes with maximum sustained winds of {{convert|195|mph|km/h|abbr=on}}, same strength as Typhoon Haiyan.
• Typhoon Rai (Odette; 2021) – severely affected the same areas as Haiyan 8 years after.
• Typhoon Noru (Karding; 2022) – a powerful typhoon that rapidly intensified into category 5-equivalent typhoon shortly before making landfall.
• Typhoon Yagi (Enteng; 2024) – the deadliest typhoon since Haiyan that ravaged through Hainan and Indochina.
• Other most intense tropical cyclones
• List of tropical cyclone records
• Typhoon Nancy (1961) – strongest tropical cyclone based on reported 1-minute maximum sustained winds
• Typhoon Nora (Luming; 1973) – once the strongest tropical cyclone ever recorded
• Typhoon Rita (Kading; 1978) – similarly powerful late-season typhoon which also devastated the Philippines
• Typhoon Tip (Warling, 1979) – strongest tropical cyclone based on pressure in recorded history
• Hurricane Allen (1980) – strongest Atlantic hurricane based on sustained wind speeds
• Hurricane Gilbert (1988) - second most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded in terms of barometric pressure
• Typhoon Gay (Seniang; 1992) – unofficially the second most intense tropical cyclone recorded, tied with Patricia
• Hurricane Wilma (2005) – the most intense tropical cyclone in the Atlantic Ocean
• Hurricane Patricia (2015) – the strongest tropical cyclone based on reliably measured 1-minute maximum sustained winds and second most intense tropical cyclone on record
• Cyclone Winston (2016) – strongest tropical cyclone in the Southern Hemisphere; also the most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded at landfall
• Typhoon Meranti (Ferdie; 2016) – another intense typhoon which made landfall in Itbayat nearly 3 years after Haiyan

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;General information about the typhoon

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• [http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/blog/archives/14311 Super Typhoon Haiyan] from Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20131128061425/http://www.weather.gov.hk/wxinfo/currwx/tc_pastpos_1339.htm Past Positions and Intensities of Typhoon Haiyan (as of 20:00 HKT on November 11, 2013)] from the Hong Kong Observatory
• [http://www.un-spider.org/advisory-support/emergency-support/typhoon-haiyan-philippines_112013 Compilation of satellite imagery and mapping products, pre- and post-disaster] from UN-SPIDER
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20131119094744/http://www.ndrrmc.gov.ph/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1124 Severe Weather Bulletin for Typhoon YOLANDA (HAIYAN)] by the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council
• [https://www.facebook.com/share/ULt5mW34DaAJCAQC/?mibextid=xfxF2i Severe Weather Bulletin 6 Tropical Cyclone Warning: "#YolandaPH (HAIYAN) Issued at 5:00 AM, 08 November 2013]

;General information about the response operation in the Philippines

• [https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo46881 Assessing the Response to Typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan: Hearing before the Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, First Session, November 19, 2013]
• [http://reliefweb.int/disaster/tc-2013-000139-phl Latest humanitarian response information] via ReliefWeb
• [http://www.fao.org/emergencies/crisis/philippines-typhoon-haiyan/en/ Response to the crisis] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131116221728/http://www.fao.org/emergencies/crisis/philippines-typhoon-haiyan/en/ |date=November 16, 2013 }} via FAO in emergencies

;Media coverage of Typhoon Haiyan's destruction in the Philippines

• [https://weather.com/news/news/sea-washed-it-away-typhoon-haiyan-20140103 MULTIMEDIA REPORT: 'The Sea Washed it Away': On the Ground After Typhoon Haiyan] by The Weather Channel
• [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-24899001 IMAGES: Haiyan before and after the storm] by BBC
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20131120212624/http://www.cbsnews.com/feature/philippines-typhoon-haiyan/ Typhoon Haiyan] coverage by CBS News
• [https://www.rappler.com/super-typhoon-yolanda Typhoon Yolanda] updates and coverage by Rappler

;Relief operations of the Government of the Philippines

• [https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/updates-typhoon-yolanda/ Updates: Typhoon Yolanda] by the Government of the Philippines
• [https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/faith/ Foreign Aid Transparency Hub (FAiTH) — Transparency portal] by the Government of the Philippines

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