TACLOBAN CITY: The International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is urging all donors to continue giving aid so that the long term recovery needs of communities severely impacted by "Yolanda" (Haiyan) can continue.

"Comparing Typhoon 'Haiyan' with the 2004 tsunami, the death toll is much lower, but almost five times as many people have been affected," IFRC country representative Bernd Schell said in a press briefing here on Friday morning.

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