Several international relief teams have started to depart after completing earthquake relief missions in Myanmar's capital, Naypyidaw, Mandalay and Sagaing.
On 8 April 2025 four rescue teams from China returned, according to a junta announcement. Rescue teams from India and Vietnam have also returned home.
In the hours after the deadly 28 March 2025 earthquake, international earthquake relief teams were sent to Myanmar.
Four teams, including the China International Search and Rescue (CISAR), Blue Sky Rescue (BSR), and the Hong Kong China Search and Rescue Team, arrived in Myanmar just over 24 hours after the earthquake. ASEAN member states also sent 13 rescue teams and teams came from other Asian and European nations.
The early hours after an earthquake are critical for rescuing trapped survivors, and the skills and efforts of international rescue teams proved essential during those desperate and chaotic moments, with many lives saved, acknowledged United Nations (UN) search and rescue experts.
Local rescuers who worked alongside international teams have described the technology they bought with them as highly sophisticated and their expertise as impressive.
A Myanmar rescue worker who worked with teams from China and Belarus said: "The technologies they use are really impressive. For example, their equipment can detect how many bodies are trapped under the rubble of a completely collapsed building and pinpoint their exact locations. The techniques they use to cut through the rubble and rescue trapped people are very similar to ours, and there’s not much difference. But their rescue technologies are truly remarkable. Here in Myanmar, we’re quite weak in that area.”
As of 7 April, international rescue teams had rescued 653 people from the rubble and recovered about 700 bodies according to an announcement from the junta.
Though some international rescue teams have already left, others are still in the country and are continuing to provide assistance in the aftermath of the earthquake, including setting up field hospitals in the affected areas.
According to the junta, as of 9 April, 3,649 people have died, 5,018 have been injured, and 145 are still missing following the 7.7 magnitude earthquake that had its epicentre near to Mandalay in Sagaing Region.
