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BANGKOK, Thailand — The
World Health Organization said
Monday the worst of the severe
acute respiratory syndrome
(SARS) outbreak appears to be
over in Singapore, Hong Kong
and Canada, while Vietnam has
become the first country to con
tain the highly infectious respira
tory disease.
SARS is spreading in China
even as the government takes
increasingly aggressive steps to
halt the disease, said David
Heymann, the chief of communi
cable diseases for WHO.
Heymann, who is in Bangkok
to attend an emergency summit
on SARS with Southeast Asian
leaders Tuesday, said the situation
is worrisome in China.
“In China, as you know, we
are receiving more and more
reports of cases and it doesn’t
appear it has peaked as far as
spread” of the disease is con
cerned, Heymann told reporters.
Hong Kong, Singapore, and
Toronto are having fewer cases
every day and Vietnam has
reported no new SARS victims,
WHO said.
“It appears that the outbreak
has peaked in those countries,”
Heymann said.
Heymann also said wearing a
mask in public for protection
against SARS is not necessary,
and the risk of getting the illness
was not as great as people
believed.
“SARS is not transmitted
when you are walking down the
street,” Heymann said. “We have
concerns about the perceived
risks of people living in Asia. The
perception that these people have
in many places appears to be
greater than the actual risk.”
There were eight new fatalities
in China, five in Hong Kong and
one in Singapore reported
Monday, raising the worldwide
death toll for SARS to at least
333, mostly in China and Hong
Kong. It has sickened around
5,000 people.
India reported two new SARS
cases Monday, raising the num
ber of cases in the country of 1
billion to nine so far. One of the
cases was a taxi driver apparently
infected by members of a family
with SARS.
Asian governments kept up
the fight with quarantines and
travel restrictions. Taiwan began
enforcing a 10-day quarantine for
visitors arriving from areas hit
hard by SARS, prompting air
lines to cancel some flights there.
Taiwan’s Premier Yu Shyi-kun
warned hospitals Monday not to
reject patients suspected of hav
ing SARS after the city of
Hsinchu refused to take seven
people sent there.
Eleven new cases were report
ed in Taiwan, the largest jump so
far on the island. Heymann said
the virus had not yet peaked in
Taiwan.
SARS has prompted a rare
global alert from WHO and
travel advisories against affect
ed countries.
WHO lifted all travel advi
sories Monday for Vietnam,
which had five deaths from
SARS after the virus spread in
February through Hanoi’s only
international hospital.
Sixty-three people contracted
the virus in Vietnam. But the
Hanoi French Hospital was cor
doned off Marcli 11, a move cred
ited with slowing the rate of
infection and keeping. SARS
from spreading beyond its doors.
No new SARS cases have
been reported in Vietnam since
April 8. WHO has set a 20-day
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said Monday that another five
SARS patients died, while 14
new cases were confirmed, the
lowest yet since the government
began releasing daily statistics
last month. The latest deaths in
Hong Kong brought the territo
ry’s toll to 138.
Hong Kong’s political leader.
Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa,
said the “downward trend” indi
cated that the territory’s battle
against the disease was yielding
results. But he warned against
complacency.
“The situation is still not total
ly under control,” Tung said. “We
must not take the disease lightly;
we must not let up our guard.”
In China, health officials
raised the mainland’s death toll
to 140 on Monday and said
3,106 people have been con-
finned infected — an increaseof
203 cases from the previous
day’s figures.
In contrast to Vietnam, China
has been widely criticized for
failing to respond earlier to
pleas for action to contain the
disease, which surfaced in the
southern province of
Guangdong in November and
spread internationally via travel
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