A sandstorm and heavy snow is delaying the delivery of relief supplies and hindering the efforts of workers in China’s remote Qinghai province trying to clean up from it April 14 earthquake.

Saturday marked the last day for rescue operations, but thousands remain in need of government aid that Chinese authorities are having difficulty delivering.
According to senior Chinese officials, the death toll has been revised to 2,203, with more than 12,000 injured and 73 still missing.

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Yushu, the site of the earthquake has seen heavy snow in the last few days, making plane landings difficult and life miserable for the area’s many homeless forced to sleep in government sponsored tents. Nearby, Xining airport, the region’s major air hub, has been engulfed in grit as raging sandstorms has grounded planes there.

Chinese government has resolved to find a way to get the supplies delivered and has announced other rebuilding and relief efforts. The government pledged to rebuild 87 Buddhist monasteries damage by the quake, while Xinhua reports that the Chinese government is providing 8,000 yuan ($1,170) to families for each death from the quake, and have doubled the amount of monthly assistance to orphaned children, disabled and elderly to 1,000 yuan from the previous 600 yuan.