YANGON -- The deadly earthquake in Myanmar has resulted in 3,003 deaths, 4,515 injuries, and 351 people missing, the official media Myanmar Radio and Television reported late Wednesday.

At 6 am Wednesday, I awoke in a mosquito net alongside hundreds of earthquake victims near the moat of Mandalay Palace.

The Chinese rescue teams were already hard at work, with generators humming and vehicles bustling. Food and water had been quietly placed outside people's mosquito nets, likely brought by local volunteer organizations or individuals in the early hours of the morning.

YANGON -- The Chinese rescue team successfully extricated a male survivor at a hotel on Wednesday afternoon in Mandalay, Myanmar.

YANGON -- A man trapped beneath the debris of a collapsed guesthouse for 122 hours was rescued in Myanmar's Sagaing region, following Friday's devastating earthquake, according to the Myanmar Fire Services Department (MFSD) on Wednesday.

The MFSD rescue team, in collaboration with international rescuers, carried out the operation and successfully pulled him out alive at 2:45 pm local time on Wednesday, it said.

To ensure rescue forces and materials from China's Yunnan province swiftly reach the quake-hit areas in Myanmar, the Kunming Customs fast-tracked customs clearance of relief goods, rescue team members, and search and rescue dogs.

BEIJING -- The first batch of aid supplies from the Red Cross Society of China (RCSC) arrived in Mandalay, the epicenter of Myanmar's recent 7.9-magnitude earthquake, on Wednesday, according to the RCSC.

The supplies include over 4,900 relief items such as tents, blankets, folding beds, and family kits to support the affected households. The Myanmar Red Cross will distribute these items with assistance from an RCSC rescue team, which had previously entered Myanmar and is also helping set up shelters.

Hundreds of professionally trained Chinese volunteers have arrived in Mandalay to participate in the rescue efforts, after a 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar on March 28. They are racing against time to save lives despite facing numerous obstacles, including local high temperatures that reach up to 40 C during the day. Follow China Daily for the latest updates of the Myanmar earthquake relief.

YANGON -- The death toll from Friday's 7.9-magnitude earthquake in Myanmar has risen to 2,886, with 4,639 injured and 373 still missing, according to the State Administration Council information team on Wednesday.

YANGON -- The Chinese Embassy in Myanmar has delivered cash assistance worth 1.5 million yuan ($206,700) to the Myanmar Red Cross Society.

Minister Counselor Cao Jing met here on Tuesday with Myo Nyunt, president of the Myanmar Red Cross Society, and handed over the cash aid offered by the Red Cross Society of China.

The Dehong Dai and Jingpo autonomous prefecture in Southwest China's Yunnan province donated a batch of medical supplies worth more than 240,000 yuan (around $33,011.76) on Tuesday to support earthquake relief work in Myanmar.

Upon arriving in Yangon, Myanmar, on Sunday evening, I rushed to Mandalay overnight with the Chinese Red Cross International Emergency Response Team that was carrying supplies.

The bus was loaded with supplies donated by Chinese social organizations. Among them were three large packages wrapped in woven bags placed in the aisles between seats.

An elderly woman was successfully rescued by a Chinese rescue team from under hospital rubble in Myanmar's capital, Nay Pyi Daw, on Sunday morning, nearly 40 hours after the magnitude 7.9 earthquake struck on Friday.

MANDALAY, Myanmar -- Chinese rescue teams are continuing to work in the hard-hit Mandalay in central Myanmar following the 7.9-magnitude temblor last week, and have so far saved eight survivors as of 08:00 local time on Tuesday in the country.

The China Search and Rescue Team saved four survivors, the Yunnan Rescue Medical Team rescued one survivor, and other civil emergency forces rescued three and assisted the China Search and Rescue Team.

As of 8 am local time on Tuesday in Myanmar, Chinese official and civil rescue teams have rescued a total of eight people following the 7.9-magnitude earthquake that struck on Friday, according to the Ministry of Emergency Management.

On Monday, the rescue team from Hong Kong SAR and the China International Search and Rescue Team met with China Search and Rescue Team.

Rescue and medical teams from across the Asia-Pacific region are continuing relief and search operations in Myanmar, helping the nation recover from Friday's devastating magnitude 7.9 earthquake.