PNoy arrives in Tacloban City from Guiuan, Samar

President Benigno Aquino III on Sunday visited at least two areas in Eastern Visayas ravaged by Super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) earlier this month.

Aquino first visited Guiuan in Eastern Samar, where Yolanda made the first of six landfalls last Nov. 8.

A post on his Twitter account said he got updates on the situation there from local officials

Ang focus ng gobyerno ay kung paano kayo maibalik sa mas maayos na kondisyon sa lalong madaling panahon.

— Noynoy Aquino (@noynoyaquino) November 17, 2013

Shortly after Sunday noon, he arrived in Tacloban City, dzBB's Sam Nielsen reported. The city, is one of the areas hit hardest by Yolanda.

Aquino plans to see for himself the progress of government efforts to assist residents affected by the typhoon.

Government agencies had been working to address the problems that hampered delivery of relief goods to the affected residents.

Power and communications have yet to be fully restored in the area, even as an emergency radio system operating at 98.7 MHz had been set up by international volunteers.

On Saturday, deputy presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte reassured Tacloban residents of continued relief and other forms of assistance in the coming weeks.

Valte said on government-run dzRB radio that construction of bunkhouses for those displaced by Yolanda will start next week.

“Next week, sisimulan ang construction ng bunkhouses para sa ating evacuees (Next week we will start constructing bunkhouses for the evacuees). We are doing to do more and more as each day passes for them,” she said.

She also said there will be an assessment soon of the evacuees’ needs.

But for now, she said the important thing is to provide relief for those affected, along with trauma counseling and stress debriefing.

Yolanda battered Visayas and Southern Luzon, leaving more than 3,000 dead. — LBG, GMA News