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Facts and figures about quake and relief
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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 40,075 nationwide Tuesday, while 247,645 people were injured and 32,361 people were missing.

In Sichuan Province alone, 39,577 people have been confirmed dead and another 236,359 people injured as of 4 p.m. Tuesday.

-- Military rescuers had reached all 1,044 worst-hit villages under 134 townships in Sichuan as of Tuesday evening.

-- A total of 278,462 tents, 783,984 quilts, 1.78 million pieces of cotton-padded clothes and 218 million yuan worth of food and drinking water had been allocated to the quake zones as of 1 p.m. Tuesday by the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

-- The Civil Affairs Ministry and Finance Ministry are also planning to provide each homeless quake victim who lacks an income with a daily subsidy of 10 yuan and 500 grams of food for three months, starting from late May. Orphans, widowed elders with no children and handicapped persons who lost relatives will receive another monthly subsidy of 600 yuan for three months. A 5,000-yuan compensation for family members of the dead in the quake is also guaranteed.

-- As of Tuesday noon, domestic and international donations to the quake areas have reached close to 14 billion yuan, compared with 11.7 billion yuan relief funds from central and local government budgets by 2 p.m. Tuesday.

(Xinhua News Agency May 21, 2008)

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