This as the Haitian government terminates the search for survivors.
A further 193,000 are confirmed wounded, and well over 600,000 have been forced into temporary shelters. These are the official statistics from Haitian authorities, which largely confirm what the international community had already suspected and feared was the case.
It remains to be seen how much worse such statistics will become in following weeks, as the cleaning up operations continue.
Ten days after the harrowing disaster, the search for survivors is bringing up an increasing number of bodies. But there are succesful rescues that stand out amid this tragedy.
On friday, an Isreali rescue team pulled two survivors from the rubble in which they'd been encased for ten days without food or water, one of them, an 84-year old woman.
Meanwhile, the stream of survivors fleeing the devastation of Port Au Prince, the capital, has become a flood, with up to 7,000 people leaving by sea alone each day, adding a new dimension to the humanitarian crisis for the island nation.
