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The death toll from the earth­quake that hit Myan­mar near­ly a week ago rose Thurs­day to 3,145 as search and res­cue teams found more bod­ies, the mil­i­tary-led gov­ern­ment said, and hu­man­i­tar­i­an aid groups scram­bled to pro­vide sur­vivors med­ical care and shel­ter.

In­for­ma­tion Min­is­ter Maung Maung Ohn al­so an­nounced at a meet­ing in the cap­i­tal, Naypy­itaw, that 4,589 peo­ple were in­jured and 221 oth­ers were miss­ing, state tele­vi­sion MRTV re­port­ed.

The epi­cen­tre of the 7.7 mag­ni­tude quake on March 28 was near Man­dalay, Myan­mar’s sec­ond-largest city. It brought down thou­sands of build­ings, buck­led roads and de­stroyed bridges in mul­ti­ple re­gions.