Special
report: Reconstruction After
Earthquake
BEIJING, July 7 (Xinhua) -- The death toll of China's
major earthquake still stood at Friday's 69,196 as of Monday noon, the State
Council Information Office said in a statement.
The number of the injured and the missing also stood
at 374,176and 18,379 respectively after the 8.0-magnitude quake jolted
southwestern Sichuan Province and neighboring regions on May 12.
As of Monday noon, 96,433 injured people had been
hospitalized and 87,466 had recovered and left hospital. There were 6,320 people
still in hospital, the statement said.
The government disaster relief fund had reached 55.05
billion yuan (about 7.98 billion U.S. dollars), including 49.75 billion yuan
from the central budget and 5.3 billion yuan from the local budget.
Domestic and foreign donations had reached 56.71
billion yuan in cash and goods, of which 20.41 billion yuan had been forwarded
to the quake-hit areas.
About 1.58 million tents, 4.87 million quilts, 14.1
million garments 1.77 million tons of fuel oil and 3.79 million tons of coal had
been sent to the quake-hit areas, it said.
As of Sunday, relief workers had built 432,900
temporary houses and another 22,100 were being installed, while the materials
for 43,800 of such shelters had arrived in the affected areas.
In the 24 hours ending Monday noon, one aftershock
between magnitude-4.0 to magnitude-4.9 and 201 aftershocks at or below
magnitude-3.9 were monitored in the quake zone. No tremor above magnitude-5.0
was monitored, according to the China Earthquake Administration.
A total of 16,200 aftershocks had been detected since
May 12.
As of Monday noon, of the 53,295 km of roads damaged
in the quake, 52,398 km had been restored, according to the statement.