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As of 11 a.m. Saturday, 145 aftershocks measuring 4 or higher on the Richter scale had been monitored since May 12, Guo Weimin, an official of the Information Office under the State Council, told a press conference Saturday afternoon. Quakes measuring above5 on the Richter scale numbered 23.
Statistics from the emergency response office under the State Council said by 2 p.m. Saturday, death toll in the Sichuan Province alone hit 28,389, with 188,153 people injured. A total of33,434 people were rescued as of 4 p.m. Saturday, according to Sichuan Province Vice Governor Li Chengyun.
In Deyang City alone, the death toll has been up to 10,291, with 65,562 injured and Mianyang City has witnessed 9,635 people dead and 59,640 injured.
Staticstics showed that 4,126 people died in Chengdu City, 2,054 in Guangyuan City, 2,134 in Aba prefecture and 23 in Ya'an City.
In Sichuan's neighboring provinces, 364 people were reported dead in Gansu Province as of 2 p.m. Saturday, 109 in Shaanxi Province, 15 in the Chongqing Municipality, two in Henan Province, one in Yunnan Province, and one in Hubei Province.
According to the press conference, a total of 15.61 million houses in quake areas were damaged nationwide, with 3.13 million collapsed.
As of 8 p.m. Friday, 116,460 injured people have been hospitalized, with 15,858 people in critical conditions.
No cases of epidemics or emergent public health incidents have been reported in quake areas so far, according to China's Ministry of Health.
By 1 p.m. Saturday, more than 181,460 tents, 220,000 quilts and170,000 cotton-padded clothes have been allocated by China's Ministry of Civil Affairs, which also set aside another 500 million yuan for disaster relief fund on Friday together with the Ministry of Finance.
Domestic and international donations to the quake areas have exceeded 6 billion yuan. Rescue teams from Japan, Russia, Republic of Korea and Singapore have already started rescue missions in quake areas.
The Organization Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) has decided to accept some Party members' big amount donations as "special Party membership dues" to send to the quake-hit areas.
So far, infrastructure in the quake areas is gradually resuming function, with a steady supply of goods, according to Guo.
Over 70 percent of the affected cities and townships in Sichuan Province had resue
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