Most quake victims settle in tents with basic needs met
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Most victims in the quake-hit Yushu in northwest China's Qinghai Province had settled in tents and were provided with food, clean water and other basic needs, an official with the Ministry of Civil Affairs said here Sunday.
Victims with injuries and illness could be timely treated, said the ministry's disaster relief department director Zou Ming at a press conference in Beijing on Sunday.
A total of 25,000 tents, 52,000 cotton-padded quilts, 16,000 cotton coats and 850 tonnes of instant food and drinking water had arrived in the quake zone, Zou said. Another 18,950 cotton-padded tents were on the way.
The 7.1-magnitude quake which struck the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu Wednesday morning has left at least 1,484 dead, 312 missing and 12,088 injured as of 5 p.m. Saturday.
The central government would grant each family of the dead a subsidy of 5,000 yuan (about 732 U.S. dollars) as it did in other natural disasters, while the Qinghai provincial government would add an extra 3,000 yuan (about 439 U.S. dollars) to each family, Zou said.
The ministry has also issued a joint circular together with the Ministry of Finance and the State Administration of Grain on giving subsidies to those extremely difficult survivors.
Each homeless survivor without an income would be given a daily allowance of 10 yuan (1.5 U.S. dollars) and 500 grams of grain for three months after the quake, the circular says. Orphaned child, the elderly who lost his or her children and the disabled could each get a monthly allowance of 600 yuan, it says.
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