The BBC is in Myanmar's capital Nay Pyi Taw to see the destruction caused by the powerful earthquake which struck on Friday.

It hit central Myanmar, near the city of Mandalay, more than 200km (125 miles) from Nay Pyi Taw.

One local says they're struggling to sleep and finding it difficult to rebuild because of aftershocks. Makeshift hospitals have been set up here too, after an emergency department collapsed.

The military government says more than 1,700 people have been killed by the earthquake in Myanmar, and thousands more injured. Those figures are expected to rise.

Hospitals in Myanmar, many of which have been damaged by the earthquake, are overwhelmed by the surge of casualties, Margaret Harris from the World Health Organisation (WHO) tells BBC News.

At least three hospitals are completely out of service, while another 22 are "partially damaged and not really able to function", she says.

And besides attending to the injured, aid workers also have to deal with what Harris describes as the "perfect conditions" for outbreaks of diseases like cholera.

Another challenge, she adds, is dealing with Myanmar's ruling military junta, which has previously been accused of withholding international aid to certain regions.

"It has always been a struggle," Harris says, "but again that is our work, to negotiate those things".

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Myanmar's ruling military junta has declared a week of national mourning, saying more than 1,700 people are known to have died in the country.

Flags will fly at half-mast during the period, which will run until 6 April, the news agency AFP reports.

As a reminder, Myanmar's leadership - with Min Aung Hlaing at the helm - rose to power in the country after a coup in February 2021.

The military junta has since carried out a violent crackdown on dissent, detaining civilian leader Aung Sung Kyi.

Because of the difficulty reporting from Myanmar, it is hard to verify the number of people who have died in the earthquake, but a US Geological Survey said on Friday that "a death toll over 10,000 is a strong possibility".

Twelve people - eight men and four women - are now known to have died when a high-rise building in Bangkok that was under construction collapsed on Friday.

This brings the total number of deaths across Bangkok from the earthquake up to 19.

It's believed there are still 75 missing workers trapped in the massive pile of rubble, and rescuers are continuing their search for survivors.

As we've been reporting, rescuers have picked up signs of life from the debris, but those signals are weak.

Getting information out of Myanmar is difficult.

The country has been ruled by a military junta since a coup in 2021, complicating access to information.

The state controls almost all local radio, television, print and online media. Internet use is also restricted.

Mobile signal in the affected areas is patchy, and tens of thousands live without electricity, making it difficult for the BBC to reach people there.

Foreign journalists are rarely allowed into the country officially.

Despite these challenges, the BBC Burmese Service regularly covers the latest on Myanmar from Yangon - and a team has reached the capital, Nay Pyi Taw, to bring updates on the aftermath of the earthquake.

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A pastor in the Pyigyitagon area of Mandalay has told the BBC about how fear and helplessness that has taken over the community.

"We haven't dared sleep in our house since the earthquake happened on Friday. Power has been down and supplies are running out," Ruate, who only gave his first name, says.

"My eight-year-old son has been badly traumatised. He was in the bedroom upstairs when the earthquake struck, and my wife was attending to his younger sister, so some debris had fallen into him...He has been breaking into tears all of a sudden in the last two days."

"Yesterday we saw bodies being brought out of collapsed buildings in our neighbourhood," Ruate adds. "It's very sobering. Myanmar has been hit by so many disasters, some natural, some human made. Everyone's just gotten so tired. We are feeling hopeless and helpless."

Nick Marsh
Reporting from Bangkok

Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt has been at the site where rescuers are still searching for signs of life under a collapsed skyscraper - telling journalists there that it is "definitely" still a rescue, rather than a recovery, operation.

At least 11 people are confirmed to have died, but dozens of construction workers are still buried under the rubble four days after the earthquake struck. No survivors have yet been found.

Thailand's industry ministry, which has inspected the site, says some irregularities have been noticed in the steel used to build the structure, and that samples had been collected for further investigation.

Most of the city's buildings managed to escape with only superficial damage on Friday.

The pockets of anxious relatives gathered at the site are still hoping for good news, but the prospects appear slim.

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One Chinese national has died in the earthquake in Myanmar on Friday, the Chinese Embassy in Myanmar confirms.

The embassy says that 15 other Chinese citizens were injured.

China is providing Myanmar with 100m yuan ($13.8m, £10.6m) in humanitarian aid, as well as two teams of rescuers.

Other countries have also sent relief supplies and personnel to help with Myanmar's earthquake response, including neighbouring India and Thailand, as well as Malaysia, Singapore and Russia.

It's been an exhausting few days for the families of construction workers trapped under the ruins of a high-rise in Bangkok.

Rescuers have picked up signs of life from the rubble, but the signals are weak, authorities say. Seventy-six workers are still trapped under it.

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After thousands of people were evacuated from several buildings in Bangkok, Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra wrote on social media that the cracks that had triggered evacuations were "pre-existing".

"The decision to evacuate each building is at the discretion of each organization; however, we urge that any such decision be clearly communicated and based on verified information from official government sources," she said.

She also urged building owners to "urgently inspect the building to clearly determine whether the cracks are old, existing, or new".

While aftershocks have been reported in Myanmar, Paetongtarn said that according to government scientists, these "have no impact on Thailand".

Simon Atkinson
in Bangkok

We were on our way to the collapsed building when we saw thousands of people streaming along the side of the road in the nearby district of Chatuchak.

Staff from two skyscrapers blocks - the TMBThanachart Bank HQ, where we're told around 2,500 people are working today, and a twin towered building in the final stages of being built with about 500 construction workers and security staff inside.

Speaking to workers, it seems there were no official evacuations in either building but that rumours spread of the sounds of cracking being heard.

Staff in both buildings have now gone back inside, but it’s not an isolated incident. My colleague’s apartment block is one of several in the city to have been evacuated this morning.

The governor of Bangkok has urged residents not to panic.

But as many people return to work for the first time since Friday’s quake, if nothing else it’s a nod to the nervousness being felt here in the Thai capital.

People have been evacuated from several buildings in Bangkok after reports of vibrations and cracks, according to local media.

The buildings include one from the Government Complex, Thailand's Stock Exchange, the Social Security Office and TMBThanachart Bank.

This comes hours after employees returned to work on Monday morning.

The earthquake from Friday has caused cracks in nearly 170 buildings across the Thai capital, according to Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt.

Unlike in Thailand, information on the earthquake's aftermath has been slow to trickle out of Myanmar. Access to the country has been limited since 2021, when the military took power after a coup.

Even then, the devastation of the quake is clear: more than 1,700 have died, according to the military government.

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A pregnant woman found herself delivering her baby as her hospital was being evacuated because of the Myanmar earthquake.

Kanthong Saenmuangshin was admitted to Police General Hospital in Bangkok on Friday after a routine check-up and was on the 5th floor of the building when the quake struck.

"I felt like a strong wind swayed me, I've never experienced anything like this before," she tells Reuters. "That's when I felt like I started to go into labour, but the doctor had started evacuating me down the stairs."

Medical staff "were holding both my arms as we made our way down the stairs," the 36-year-old says, and "I was telling my baby, don't come out yet, but the pain kept growing and growing as I was coming down the stairs".

She was put on a bed and gave birth to a baby girl after reaching the ground floor of the hospital.

"Once my baby is born, the ground stopped shaking," she says. "I felt great, I saw my child and the earthquake stopped. I am so impressed and happy by how the hospital took care of me."

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In Myanmar, "humanitarian needs are growing by the hour", the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) said in a statement on Sunday.

"This is not just a disaster; it is a complex humanitarian crisis layered over existing vulnerabilities," said IFRC Asia Pacific director Alexander Matheou.

Myanmar has been in civil war since its military ousted the civilian government in a 2021 coup. Shortly after Friday's earthquake, the junta reportedly continued launching air strikes.

"Myanmar continues to face internal displacement and food insecurity. This earthquake exacerbates an already fragile situation," Matheou said. "The global community must step forward to support a bold and sustained response."

We have heard from a teacher in Mandalay, who spoke to the BBC's Newshour programme.

She said she was at work when the earthquake hit and that children "cried a lot".

"We never had that kind of earthquake before. It was very strong," she said.

She said she wasn't sure if aid had reached Mandalay.

"They say that the rescue's coming, but people are still suffering," she said.

And according to her friend in the nearby city of Sagaing, the stench of dead bodies is permeating the streets.

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Nick Beake
Reporting from Bangkok

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The sound of diggers crunching into vast mounds of rubble could be heard throughout the night.

This operation is now in a fourth day and early hopes of finding survivors faded fast.

That hasn’t stopped relatives of the missing keeping vigil at the edge of the site.

Some may have seen in neighbouring Myanmar that - despite all odds - people who’d been trapped in the rubble for dozens of hours have been located and freed.

But the wreckage of this 30-storey tower that was under construction in Bangkok dwarfs the wreckage of any destroyed building across the border inside Myanmar.

Nevertheless, the work here goes on.

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As search and rescue efforts continue across areas impacted by Friday's 7.7 magnitude quake, the Red Cross tells the BBC that the types of aid needed by those in Myanmar are varied.

Helping people who are injured and getting them professional care is the top priority, says Arnaud de Baecque from the International Committee for the Red Cross.

Ensuring people have access to clean water in order to prevent disease is also crucial, he says, especially given the season.

"We know the temperatures are very high, it's the hot season coming up and it's already 35C(95F), 40C (104F)."

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The WHO has put out an urgent appeal for $8m (£6.2m) in aid for its earthquake response in Myanmar, where around 1,700 have died and thousands are at risk of injuries and diseases.

The UN agency says it's responding at its "highest level of emergency activation", and donations are needed to "deliver life-saving trauma care, prevent disease outbreaks, and restore essential health services over the next 30 days."

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It's around 9:30 in the morning in Myanmar and 10:00 in Thailand. If you're just joining us, here's a recap of what's happened so far.

• More than 1,700 people have died, and some 3,400 injured, after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck close to Mandalay, Myanmar's second largest city on Friday
• International agencies and foreign government have dispatched aid and rescue teams to the South East Asian nation
• Family members are waiting anxiously as rescue efforts are underway in Myanmar and in neighbouring Thailand, where the earthquake was also felt
• In Bangkok about 1,000km away from the epicentre, 76 construction workers remain trapped in the rubble of a high-rise building

• The disaster is a further blow to Myanmar, which has been gripped by a civil war since a military coup in 2021.