It has also announced that the death toll has risen to 6,621.
"It has already been one week since the disaster," home ministry spokesman Laxmi Prasad Dhakal said.
"We are trying our best in rescue and relief work but now I don't think that there is any possibility of survivors under the rubble."
As well as updating the death toll, Mr Dhakal put the number of injured at 14,023.
The 7.8-magnitude quake was the deadliest in Nepal for more than 80 years.
It devastated vast swathes of the country when it erupted around midday last Saturday and reduced much of the capital, Kathmandu, to ruins.
Multiple teams of rescuers from more than 20 countries have been using sniffer dogs and heat-seeking equipment to find survivors in the rubble, but no one has been pulled alive since Thursday evening.
More than 100 people were also killed in neighbouring India and China.
US military aircraft, heavy equipment and air traffic controllers will start arriving in Nepal from today as part of a US relief operation.
The US military is to help manage the growing piles of relief supplies clogging Nepal's only international airport, located in Kathmandu, which has struggled to distribute all the aid arriving from around the world since the earthquake.
The United Nations has said eight million of Nepal's 28m people were affected by the quake, with at least 2m needing tents, water, food and medicines over the next three months.
Source: AFP
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