The Chinese state media reported on Tuesday that at least 65 people have died and hundreds have been injured by Monday's earthquake in China's Sichuan Province.
The houses collapsed in Ganzi prefecture, China.
The 6.8 magnitude earthquake in China has left at least 257 people injured and 12 still missing.
Power has been disrupted in the Tibetan prefecture of Ganzi, where at least 37 people have died.
The city of Ya'an has a population of over one million.
The earthquake caused a lot of damage to houses, according to the Associated Press.
The epicenter of the earthquake is 125 miles from the capital of Sichuan, where 21 million people are under a strict curfew due to a rise in Covid-19 cases.
1,666 is the total number of people. China's National Health Commission reported 185 new cases of Covid in the province. There has been an outbreak in the province.
According to the Washington Post, some people were ordered not to leave their apartments while they were experiencing tremors, as part of China's zero- Covid approach. When it comes to earthquakes, it's not unusual for building managers to tell residents that it's safest to stay indoors. Large-scale mass testing is being carried out in an effort to stop the local spread of the virus. In the aftermath of a natural disaster, the local authorities have been accused of ignoring Covid measures by the city residents.
The location of the worst earthquake in China in 2008 resulted in the deaths of almost 90 thousand people. The manufacturing hub of the province had to endure power cuts for at least two weeks.
A 65-year-old man was killed by an earthquake in southwest China.
There was an earthquake in China.
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