UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said he is "immensely frustrated" at Burma's slow response to the cyclone that hit the country nine days ago.
Mr Ban said the aid that has been trickling into Burma could be just a 10th of what was needed.
He said he had still not been able to speak to Burmese leader Gen Than Shwe.
The official toll for the cyclone has risen to almost 32,000, although foreign aid workers say the real number of dead may be much higher.
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"We are at a critical point. Unless more aid gets into the country very quickly, we face an outbreak of infectious diseases that could dwarf today's current crisis," Mr Ban said.
"I therefore call in the most strenuous terms on the government of Myanmar to put its people's lives first."
(BBC)
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