Yangon, April 3 -- The death toll from the 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar has risen to 2,719, with approximately 4,521 people injured and 441 others still missing, said the country's Prime Minister Min Aung Hlaing.

Relief efforts have been hampered due to fuel shortages, intermittent communications, and power outages, media reports said. A Reuters report said that search and rescue operations have been hit due to a shortage of heavy equipment, and many people are now forced to look for survivors manually in temperatures that regularly surpass 40 degrees Celsius.

Speaking to journalists from Yangon, Julia Rees, Deputy Representative of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) in the country described seeing massive needs rising by the hour, ...