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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 69,016 nationwide as of Sunday noon, while 368,545 people were injured and 18,830 people were missing.

-- Rescuers saved and evacuated 951,975 people to safe places, but no new survivor was found buried under the rubble, as of Saturday midnight.

-- Hospitals took in a total of 91,762 injured people, 61,597 of whom recovered and left as of Sunday noon.

-- Domestic and foreign donations had reached 41.5 billion yuan (5.93 billion US dollars), up 1.4 billion yuan overnight. And 11.52 billion yuan had been forwarded to the earthquake-affected areas.

-- A total of 701,500 tents, one of the most urgently needed relief supplies, had been delivered to quake regions.

-- A total of 4,411,200 quilts and 11,345,300 garments had been sent to these regions.

-- The government has allocated 22.61 billion yuan (3.28 billion US dollars) as of Sunday noon for quake relief efforts. The fund included 18.3 billion yuan from the central budget and 4.31 billion yuan from local budgets.

-- Between 12:00 p.m. Saturday and 12:00 p.m. Sunday, three aftershocks measuring between 4 to 4.9 on the Richter scale was monitored.

(Xinhua News Agency June 2, 2008)

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