Facts and figures about China quake and relief
Updated: 2008-05-23 00:04
BEIJING -- 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 51,151 nationwide as of 10 a.m. Thursday, while 288,431 people were injured and 29,328 people were missing.
As of Thursday noon, domestic and foreign donations had reached 21.4 billion yuan (3 billion US dollars), up 5.4 billion yuan overnight. And 1.9 billion yuan had been forwarded to the earthquake-affected areas.
A total of 403,340 tents, 2.3 million cotton-padded quilts and 3.05 million articles of clothing had been sent to the survivors, and 384,000 tonnes of wheat and rice were being sent to the region.
The government disaster relief fund for the affected areas reached 13.975 billion yuan as of 2 p.m. Thursday, up about 1.1 billion yuan from the previous day. The total included 10.295 billion yuan from the central budget and 3.68 billion yuan from local budgets.
A total of 3,444 people injured in the quake had died in hospitals as of Thursday noon.
As of 9:00 p.m. Wednesday, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, the United Kingdom, the United States and the UN Refugee Agency had provided more than 150,000 tents to provide temporary shelters for those left homeless.
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