Chinese officials reported on Friday (Jan 10) that 91 people injured in the earthquake in Tibet remained hospitalised, while over 47,000 individuals had been relocated to shelters, as rescue teams expanded their search for survivors in the Himalayan foothills, despite the low likelihood of finding anyone alive.
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00:00Chinese officials reported on Friday that 91 people injured in the earthquake in Tibet
00:07remained hospitalized, while over 47,000 individuals had been relocated to shelters as rescue teams
00:15expanded their search for survivors in the Himalayan foothills, despite the low likelihood
00:20of finding anyone alive.
00:22Deputy Party Secretary of the Regional Health Commission Gesang Yudron said medical treatment
00:27shifted from emergency treatment to standardized treatment gradually.
00:32About 47,500 people affected by the earthquake have been resettled at 187 sites in towns
00:38around the epicenter.
00:40It is not yet clear how many are still missing after Tuesday's quake of magnitude 6.8 killed
00:46126 and injured 188, but more than 48 hours later, experts say those trapped under rubble
00:53are likely to have died of hypothermia.