The death toll in Turkey -Syria crossed 34000 and it is likely to be around 70000 according to WHO reports.
While the World Health Organisation (WHO) said that almost 26 million people have been affected by the earthquake, launching an urgent appeal for $42.8 million to cope with immediate health needs in the two countries.
The search and rescue people will make way for the humanitarian agencies whose job it is to look after the extraordinary numbers of those affected for the next months,the rescue teams said.
While the official deaths in the earthquake now stand at 24,617 in Turkey and 3,574 in Syria, tens of thousands of rescue workers continued to search for survivors in the rubble.
The United Nations earlier warned that at least 870,000 people urgently need hot meals across Turkey and Syria and up to 5.3 million people may have been made homeless in Syria alone, the media agencies reported.
