Following are the latest facts and figures about the massive 8.0-magnitude earthquake that rocked southwest China's Sichuan Province on May 12:
-- The death toll from the quake rose to 69,019 nationwide as of Monday noon, while 373,573 people were injured and 18,627 people were missing.
-- Rescuers saved and evacuated 1,052,656 people to safe places as of Sunday midnight.
-- Hospitals took in a total of 92,973 injured people, 68,565 of whom recovered and left as of Monday noon.
-- Domestic and foreign donations had reached 41.74 billion yuan (5.96 billion U.S. dollars), up 240 million yuan overnight. And 11.53 billion yuan had been forwarded to the earthquake-affected areas.
-- A total of 712,900 tents, one of the most urgently needed relief supplies, had been delivered to quake regions.
-- A total of 4,411,200 quilts and 11,538,200 garments had been sent to these regions.
-- The government has allocated 23.03 billion yuan (3.34 billion U.S. dollars) as of Monday noon for quake relief efforts. The fund included 18.68 billion yuan from the central budget and 4.353 billion yuan from local budgets.
-- Between 12:00 p.m. Sunday and 12:00 p.m. Monday, no aftershock measuring above 4 on the Richter scale was monitored.
Source: Xinhua
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