TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan will send dozens of medical workers to Myanmar on Wednesday as part of its emergency support for the Southeast Asian country following a powerful earthquake last week, Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya said.

Iwaya said at a press conference on Tuesday that the 32-member team, including doctors and nurses, is set to leave Tokyo in the early hours of Wednesday.

Japan has already delivered 240 waterproof tarpaulin sheets and 450 tents after the magnitude 7.7 earthquake rocked central Myanmar on Friday, killing thousands.

Tokyo is also preparing to provide emergency relief supplies such as hygiene kits, water and water purifiers, Iwaya said.

"We will continue to carry out as much humanitarian support as possible to help people in Myanmar," Iwaya said.

The death toll had risen to over 2,000, according to Myanmar's junta. Tokyo has said two Japanese were injured in Mandalay, Myanmar's second-largest city and located near the epicenter, and that the whereabouts of one Japanese living there are unknown.