Recovery efforts from the earthquake last week in Myanmar are slow moving.

The country is grappling with a natural disaster, plus an ongoing humanitarian crisis amid a civil war that started four years ago.

The death toll has now risen past 2,700, with more than 4,500 people injured and at least 440 still missing. Stephanie Sy has this report.

As sirens wailed, rescue workers in Mandalay stood still. A one-minute pause to honor the

thousands of victims of Friday's earthquake.

And then back to work.

Teams are still sifting through the rubble for survivors.

Officials said a 63-year-old woman was found alive today in a collapsed building in a Pieda.

She'd been trapped for almost four days.

But hopes for finding more survivors

dim with each hour, said the head of Myanmar's military.

Among the missing, most are assumed to be dead. There is a narrow chance for them to remain alive

as it has been over 72 hours. The army took control of the country in a 2021 coup, sparking a civil war and humanitarian crisis.

Before the earthquake people had been dealing with four years of conflict in Myanmar.

Melissa Hine works for the World Food Program in the Southeast Asian nation.

So there was some 20 million people

already needing humanitarian assistance and 3.5 million people displaced. And that was before Friday.

The epicenter of the 7.7 magnitude earthquake was near Mandalay, Myanmar's second largest city.

The impact area is widespread, including rural areas with scarce communication infrastructure.

The cities are overwhelmed.

Patients wait to be seen in overcrowded hospitals and makeshift wards have been set up outside.

International organizations are surging resources into the country,

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