The death toll rose to 2,275, according a national tally kept by the disaster agency.
That figure is expected to rise, perhaps significantly, when accurate information is collected from the entirety of the disaster zone, which spreads over a wide swath of the eastern and central Philippines but appears to be concentrated on two main islands, Leyte and Samar.
The congressman for Eastern Samar province, a coastal region that bore the full force of the storm, said 211 had been killed there and 45 were missing.
He said some villages have been wiped out, with practically no structures standing.
In one town, bodies remain lying on the road because help has not come to retrieve or bury them.
Other towns have conducted mass burials.
