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Survivors in about 70 per cent of storm-ravaged Bangladesh are receiving help from aid workers, but there was still a large swath of the country that was too ravaged to access on Tuesday. "Thirty per cent of the devastated area is still out of reach," the CBC's Priya Ramu said, reporting from Bangladesh. "But slowly, finally there is greater access to aid. Relief agencies say they are able to get to remote areas which have been hardest hit." Roads are slowly being cleared and communication networks are being rebuilt after Cyclone Sidr roared through the South Asian country on Thursday, killing at least 3,100 people, Ramu said. Government workers and thousands of international volunteers are delivering food, water and tents by trucks, helicopters and even naval ships, while an estimated 1,500 health teams are delivering medications to areas where there is a risk of outbreaks of diarrhea and other water-borne diseases. Mike Kiernan, a spokesman for the charity Save the Children, stressed that those who survived the storm might still be lost to its aftermath. "Just the fact that people were able to survive this does not mean they will survive the second wave of death that comes from catastrophes like this: from lack of clean water, food, basic medicines and shelter," he said. The government of Bangladesh, which has pleaded for aid, said about $120 million in international aid has been promised so far, including $3 million from Canada. "At this time we will welcome support from the international community," said a statement from Bangladesh foreign ministry. "We are doing as best as we can do ourselves." Bangladesh hopes to peg a dollar figure on the physical damage to the country by the end of the week, in the hope that it might encourage more foreign aid, Ramu reported. She said thousands of hectares of farmland have been destroyed and thousands of farm animals killed. 'Hoping to get some food and drinking water'Meanwhile, survivors were hoping for relief "I've been waiting here for several hours, hoping to get some food and drinking water," said Safura Begum, a mother of three who lined up with dozens of other women in the hard-hit coastal town of Patharghata, on the Bay of Bengal. "But I'm not sure it will come. Some biscuits and a few bottles of water are what I've gotten in the past three days." By Monday the army pegged the official death toll at 3,113, but the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society suggested the final figure could be around 10,000 once rescuers reach outlying islands. Sidr is the worst cyclone to hit Bangladesh, a country of 150 million, since a 1991 cyclone killed 139,000 people along the coast. With files from the Associated Press