ReliefWeb

Highlights

• The Vanuatu Flash Appeal, launched on 24 March in Port Vila, seeks US$29.9 million for humanitarian operations.

• About 65 per cent of the population in Shefa and Tafea provinces has no access to safe drinking water.

• Up to 96 per cent of crops were destroyed, leaving people with no alternative food stocks.

• Initial assessments indicate that over 30 health facilities will need rehabilitation.

• Fifty per cent of the water supply is operational on Efate Island.

• Initial emergency food assistance has been dispatched for approximately 180,000 people since the emergency began.

• Two full emergency health kits were sent to Tanna Island on 24 March; enough to provide 20,000 people with primary and secondary health assistance for three months.

• TVL and Digicel claim to have restored telecommunications to 80 per cent of Vanuatu.

11 Confirmed fatalities

166,000 People affected on 22 islands

1,060 People in evacuation centres in Efate

19 Evacuation Centres in Efate

75,000 People in need of emergency shelter

110,000 People in need of clean drinking water