Hong Kong Building Residents under Quarantine over New Virus

World | March 31, 2003, Monday // 00:00

The residents of an apartment in Hong Kong building in urban Kowloon were ordered under quarantine for 10 days in an effort to control a deadly new virus. With the number of cases in the territory reported to be at least 622 on Monday, 213 have been linked to the Amoy Gardens housing estate in urban Kowloon. Policemen and health workers are in the estate where current residents of Block E have been ordered to stay at home until midnight (1600 GMT) on 9 April.

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