The death toll from the Category 5 super typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) has breached the 2,500 maximum head count estimated by Philippine President Benigno Aquino. As of 6am local time on Monday, Philippine authorities said the official number of the dead has been counted at 3,976 people.

Authorities expect the number to still rise in the following days since a lot of remote areas in the central Philippines have yet to be reached.

Missing people are counted at 1,598, according to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC); the injured are recorded at 18,175.

The NDRRMC said damages wrought by super typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) are now at ₱10,384,690,061 (AU$254,004,668), including ₱1,295,508,600 (AU$31,689,251) in infrastructure and ₱9,089,181,461 (AU$222,329,174) on agriculture.

Super typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda), which ripped and left massive destruction and chaos across central Philippines, affected 2,212,955 families or 10,306,318 people in 10,365 villages in 44 provinces.

It destroyed 288,922 houses while damaging 282,884 others.

There are 74,015 families or 353,862 people presently staying in 1,550 evacuation centers scattered across the affected areas.

Some areas in the Bicol, Western Visayas, Central Visayas, MIMAROPA (Occidental Mindoro, Oriental Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon, Palawan) and the badly-stricken Eastern Visayas continue to remain without electricity. Typhoon Haiyan's strong winds on Nov 8 toppled some 566 transmission towers.

The provinces of Barbaza and Antique and portions of Iloilo and Capiz have also yet to get reconnected to potable water supply.

Meantime, the central government has announced it will be flying in four mobile automated teller machines (ATMs) to service the needs of the people living in and around Tacloban City.

The ATMs belong to the Land Bank of the Philippines. It will be placed at the branch in Barangay (village) Sangkahan. It will become operational starting Tuesday.

Banks located in Tacloban City have yet to be fully operational because electricity is still down in some areas. Tacloban City banks have been closed since Nov. 7, a day before typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) blasted the city and the nearby provinces.

The ATMs, according to Imelda Laceras, Department of Budget and Management regional director, were sourced from Manila and Cebu. They will be flown in aboard C-130 military planes.