Death toll in the Philippines from typhoon Haiyan (local name Yolanda) jumped to 1,833 with initial cost of damage increasing to 761.4 million pesos (17.4 million U.S. dollars), a senior government official said on Wednesday morning.

Philippine official death toll from typhoon "Haiyan" rises to 255

At least one person killed in S. Philippines due to Super Typhoon Haiyan

A resident rests by the debris in the aftermath of typhoon "Haiyan" in Leyte Province, the Philippines, Nov. 12, 2013. The death toll caused by super typhoon "Haiyan" (local name Yolanda) rose to 1,774 by Monday night, a Philippine government agency said.

The additional fatalities coming from Western Visayas reached 103, while the number of those who perished in Eastern Visayas remained at 1,660, said Eduardo del Rosario, executive director of the Philippines' National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC).

Some 2,623 people were injured and 84 people were missing, he added.

A total of 1.387 million families or 6.937 million people were affected by Haiyan and of them, 127,733 families or 582,303 persons were displaced and being served inside and outside the evacuation centers, the NDRRMC official said.

Nearly 150,000 houses were either partially or totally damaged. Of the total cost of damage, 199.58 million pesos (4.57 million dollars) came from infrastructure and 561.8 million dollars (12.9 million dollars) from agriculture, Del Rosario said.

Philippine gov't promises not to neglect any typhoon-hit area

Philippine Presidential Spokesman Edwin Lacierda Tuesday assured that all the victims of typhoon Haiyan would be assisted by government, denying that some areas are being neglected as resources are being focused only in the Tacloban City and Leyte Province.

A man searches among the debris of his destroyed house near Tacloban Airport, on the eastern island of Leyte, in the Philippines, on Nov. 10, 2013. (Xinhua/Rueters)

Lacierda said national government agencies have representatives in the affected regions while operation centers had even been set up in different affected areas, where food and non-food relief items, equipment and personnel, are being deployed there to enable its easier delivery.

He admitted that much attention is being given to Tacloban and Leyte as they are the most affected places, however, it does not mean that other areas are neglected.

"We have a forward operations center as stated by (Cabinet) Secretary (Jose Rene) Almendras to address all the areas. We assure the people in the other areas apart from Tacloban City that you will also -- you are being attended to and also the prepositioned goods are already there. We assure the national government is there to help," he said.

The Philippine government would help all victims regardless of political affiliation, he added.

He said apart from attending to the relief, clearing and restoration operations, the national government had also ensured the preparation including the prepositioning of other relief items and assets in areas that may be affected by new tropical depression Zoraida, which proves that their attention is not limited to Tacloban and Leyte and the recent calamity.

Source: Xinhuanet