Two-hundred prefabricated homes will be provided for the typhoon-stricken Philippines, China Soong Ching Ling Foundation (CSCLF) has announced.

The houses are worth about 3.2 million yuan (525,120 U.S. dollars), the foundation said on its website.

The CSCLF will help to support the reconstruction of typhoon-stricken areas, it said.

The foundation, founded in 1982 in the name of former Chinese honorary president Soong Ching Ling, is a leading charity and folk exchange organization in China.

The death toll from Typhoon Haiyan (local name Yolanda) stands at 4,011, the Philippine disaster agency said Wednesday. The number of those injured has risen to 18,557, while 1,602 people remained missing.

After getting the confirmation from the Philippine side, China's emergency medical and rescue teams will go there, with the first batch of rescuers from the China Red Cross departing on Wednesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said early Wednesday.

China will also send the Peace Ark, which belongs to the Chinese navy, to provide medical assistance, Hong said, adding that the boat will depart soon.

The first batch of Chinese humanitarian aid arrived on Monday and Tuesday in the central Philippine city of Cebu, a center for relief goods distribution, Hong told a press briefing on Tuesday.

The relief aid, including tents and blankets, was shipped by a China Eastern Airlines cargo plane and handed over to the Philippine Department of Social Welfare and Development. The aid will then be sent to Tacloban, one of the worst-hit cities in the central Philippine province of Leyte.