May quake death toll remains unchanged at 69,226

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-09-01 19:26

BEIJING - The death toll from the May 12 earthquake in Sichuan Province and its neighboring region remains unchanged at 69,226 as of Monday noon, according to a statement released by the State Council Information Office.

The number of people listed as missing and injured still stood at 17,923 and 374,643 respectively.

As of Monday noon, a total of 1,486,407 survivors had been relocated.

Among the 96,544 who had been hospitalized for injuries, 93,035 have been discharged, the statement said.

Government spending on relief and reconstruction had reached 67.17 billion yuan (about US$9.73 billion), including 59.8 billion yuan from the central budget and 7.35 billion yuan from the local budget.

According to the Ministry of Civil Affairs, domestic and foreign donations had exceeded 59.31 billion yuan in cash and goods by Monday noon. Of this, 25.31 billion yuan had been forwarded to quake-hit areas.

About 1.58 million tents, 4.87 million quilts, 14.1 million garments, 3.5 million tonnes of fuel and 7.47 million tonnes of coal had been sent to the quake-hit areas, it said.

As of Sunday, relief workers had built 671,200 temporary houses and another 2,200 were being installed.

Between Thursday noon and Monday noon, 691 aftershocks at or below magnitude 3.9 were monitored in the quake zone, while no aftershock at or above 4.0 magnitude were reported, according to the China Earthquake Administration. A total of 27,256 aftershocks had been detected since May 12.

The 6.1-magnitude quake that occurred at the juncture of Renhe District in Panzhihua and Huili County in Yi Autonomous Prefecture of Liangshan, Sichuan at 4:30 p.m Saturday was not an aftershock of the May quake, according to experts.

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