Bangkok - Two months after the deadly earthquake hit most of the earthquakes in central and northeast Myanmar, recovery is gradually developing, with large numbers of people living in temporary shelters while facing heavy rains and strong winds during the monsoon season.

The March 28 earthquake was 7.7 magnitude, causing significant damage to six regions and states, including Naypyitaw and Mandalay, the capital of the country's second largest city. Myanmar Global New Light reported on Friday that the confirmed death toll of the disaster has reached 3,740 and 5,104 injured.

With the task of rebuilding the shackles, the grim work of restoring the dead continues.

Myanmar Fire Department said this week on its Facebook page that its team has recovered four bodies from rubble from the collapsed building in Sky Villa Condominium in Mandalay on Tuesday and Wednesday.

More than 100 bodies have been recovered from the apartment site, and the search will continue as more bodies are believed to have been buried among officials from the Myanmar Rescue Federation (Mandalay) officials (with firefighters), told the Associated Press on Friday. He didn't want to be named because he was arrested for speaking without authorization.

A report published on May 23 by Ocha, the United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said that humanitarian needs in Myanmar reached record levels, with 19.9 million people identified as needing assistance and urgently needed 2 million people.

Myanmar has fallen into turmoil in 2021, when the military seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, which sparked nonviolent pro-democracy protests across the country that escalated into armed resistance, which now amounted to a civil war.

"Myanmar continues to face significant humanitarian challenges driven by recurring disasters, ongoing conflicts and serious protection risks, and is estimated to be displaced across the country," Ocha said.

Min Aung Hlaing, head of the Myanmar military government

According to his data, hundreds of roads and bridges were damaged or destroyed, and more than 700 hospitals and clinics have also suffered varying degrees of damage.

Shelter is a major problem, even if people leave the temporary camp and return home.

About half of the disaster victims living in the camp returned to temporary residences of houses they had lived in before, officials from the Myanmar Rescue Federation (Mandalay) said.

Aung Kyaw, who oversees the recovery activities at Hmike Su Ward in the town of Amarapura in Mandalay, told the Associated Press Friday that more than 150 people in his ward are still living in a curbside shelter at the Tarpaulin tent, said they suffered from days of rain due to strong winds and continuous rainfall and were desperate for metal roofs.

"I need a roof on the iron to build shelter on my land. I'll be satisfied with being able to sleep safely at home," his house was destroyed. "I don't want to badge for anything else. Now we're just sitting in the rain."

He said people living in temporary shelters could also face flooding due to heavy monsoon rains in the coming months.

In Naypyitaw, the capital, government personnel have moved to modular low-cost prefabricated buildings built around the yard of the Central Railway Station, while debris have not yet cleared its damaged state housing.

In other damaged residential areas, people have done cleaning up debris themselves, but most still live in tents.