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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 65,080 nationwide as of Monday noon, while 360,058 people were injured and 23,150 people were missing.

-- Rescuers saved and evacuated 666,331 people to safe places, including 6,537 survivors buried under the rubble, as of Sunday midnight.

-- Hospitals took in a total of 83,527 injured people, 53,247 of whom recovered and left as of Monday noon.

-- Domestic and foreign donations had reached 30.88 billion yuan (4.48 billion US dollars), up 1.82 billion yuan overnight. And 9.05 billion yuan had been forwarded to the earthquake-affected areas.

-- A total of 495,997 tents, one of the most urgently needed relief supplies, had been delivered to quake regions.

-- A total of 3,096,617 quilts and 5,214,626 garments had been sent to these regions.

-- The government disaster relief fund reached 16.63 billion yuan (2.41 billion US dollars) as of 2 p.m. Monday. The fund included 12.56 billion yuan from the central budget and 4.06 billion yuan from local budgets.

-- As of Monday noon, 182 aftershocks measuring above 4 on the Richter scale had been monitored in Sichuan and among them, 28 aftershocks measured above magnitude 5, and five above magnitude 6.

(Xinhua News Agency May 27, 2008)

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