China has quarantined 10,000 people in the eastern city of Nanjing in a bid to contain the Sars outbreak which has claimed 214 lives in the country and infected 4,409 people. Eight deaths and 138 new cases of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome were announced on Tuesday. Four of the deaths were in the capital Beijing, where 563 more people were isolated, bringing the total number of quarantined to more than 16,000, the official Xinhua news agency said. Riots have also been reported in rural parts of China where villagers attacked buildings they learned were to be used as quarantine centres.

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