Aid workers finally allowed into Burma delta zone

International aid workers today finally began entering Burma’s cyclone-devastated delta after being blocked for more than three weeks by the country’s military junta.

But the UN stressed that an estimated 1.5 million people in the Irrwaddy river area were still in dire need and had not received aid. Official government estimates put the death toll at about 78,000 with an additional 56,000 people missing.