China Strengthens SARS Measures

World | April 25, 2003, Friday // 00:00

Beijing has sealed off another hospital and ordered 4,000 people to stay at home to prevent the spread of the pneumonia-like SARS virus. The government has brought in emergency measures to quarantine people with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, but denied rumours that it planned to invoke martial law. Five more deaths from SARS were announced in China April 23,while six more people have died in Hong Kong - taking the death toll to 115 each.

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