The Haitian government has declared the search-and-rescue phase of the post-earthquake clean-up over, according to the United Nations, as officials acknowledge there is little chance of finding anyone alive 11 days after the quake struck.

However, just as the search and rescue operation was officially called off, a 23-year-old man was pulled out of the wreckage of a food shop in good health, 11 days after the quake.

The UN's Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) issued the statement just as an Israeli search team pulled a dehydrated but breathing man out of his collapsed home, and relatives said an elderly woman was also pulled from the rubble.

Elisabeth Byrs, a spokesperson for the OCHA, said the Haitian government's decree did not mean that search teams would be prevented from sifting through crumbled buildings.

"It doesn't mean the government will order them to stop. In case there is the slightest sign of life, they will act," Byrs told The Associated Press, adding that "except for miracles, hope is unfortunately fading."

On Friday, Israeli search-and-rescue workers pulled 21-year-old Emmannuel Buso from the debris of a two-storey home. The team was approached by Buso's family, who could hear his cries from underneath the debris.

Buso told The Associated Press that the quake struck as he was coming out of the shower.

"I felt the house dancing around me," Buso said from a bed in an Israeli field hospital. "I didn't know if I was up or down."

Buso said he passed out a number of times, and drank his own urine when he got thirsty.

On the same day as Buso's rescue, an 84-year-old woman was in critical condition at General Hospital, receiving oxygen and intravenous fluids, after being pulled from her collapsed home.

According to the OCHA's statement, 132 people have been rescued by international search-and-rescue teams since the 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck in the late afternoon of Jan. 12.

The OCHA, citing government estimates, said that more than 110,000 people were killed by the quake, and about 609,000 were left homeless in the capital, Port-au-Prince.

The European Commission puts the death toll closer to 200,000.

Others still cling to hope. One mother with three missing children said that teams should continue to search the rubble.

"Maybe there's a chance they're still alive," said Nicole Abraham, 33.

Abraham also spoke of hearing her children's cries in the hours after the quake struck. Her children are aged 4, 6 and 15.

Thousands of Haitians displaced

The UN estimates that as many as 1 million people may eventually have to leave cities that have been reduced to rubble to re-start their lives in rural areas.

Hundreds of thousands of quake survivors are already fleeing the severely dilapidated Port-au-Prince, as the government plans to move nearly a half-million others to safer ground on the outskirts of the capital.

The UN believes that as many as 472,000 people are living in more than 500 squalid campsites scattered across the Haitian capital.

And the U.S. Agency for International Development says another 200,000 people have fled the city by bus, on swamped ferries and by foot since the disaster. It says at least 100,000 have fled to Gonaives, a city northwest of Port-au-Prince that was hit by back-to-back hurricanes in 2008.

The survivors who remain in the capital are living under makeshift tarps and tents, without access to water or sanitation -- conditions that health authorities say put them at risk of disease.

Foreign engineers have started levelling land on the edges of Port-au-Prince, so that new tent cities can be erected for up to 400,000 people.

The government says its people will be better off once they move, a voluntary process that should begin as soon as the end of the month.

"They are going to be going to places where they will have at least some adequate facilities," Fritz Longchamp, chief of staff to President Rene Preval, said Thursday.

Sombre farewells

A crowd of 1,000-plus gathered in the capital Saturday morning to say goodbye to the city's archbishop, Msgr. Joseph Serge Miot, and the vicar Charles Benoit.

Many of the mourners wept and clutched handkerchiefs at the service, which was held in a small park.

"He was a very compassionate person. He tried to help the poor," said Nepthalie Miot, a niece of the archbishop.

The funeral, attended by dignitaries like Preval, New York's Archbishop and the Vatican's ambassador to Haiti, is significant for the city because most of the dead have so far been buried in anonymous graves.

"This is for everyone," said local man Leopas Auza, speaking before the funeral began.

With files from The Associated Press