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Death tolls rose to 2,000, along with more than 9,900 injured after the earthquake in Haiti on August 18, 2021. These numbers are likely to rise as search and rescue operations are still being conducted. The Haitian Civil Protection General Directorate (DGPC) claimed that over 137,000 families have been affected in the Sud, Grand'Anse and Nippes departments. 500,000 people, or about 40 percent of the total population within those departments, require emergency humanitarian assistance.
61,000 homes have been reported to have been destroyed and over 76,000 sustained damages in the most effected departments of the flooding. 24 health facilities have also been affected by the earthquake with 20 of them suffering from infrastructure damages and 4 of them being completely destroyed. This flood has other effects on surrounding areas such as triggering flooding in Jacmel, Les Cayes and Marigot.