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worn THE BATTALII ;y quake kill than 80 :ude 6.4 earthquake >utheastern Turkey /, killing at least 84 nd injuring 390 ota n 100 students were to be trapped in a 1 school dormitory. tVORLD HE BATTALION 9A Friday, May 2, 2003 SARS toll climbs to 170 oad blocks put up to stifle spread By Christopher Bodeen THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RUSSIA JIEZISHI, China — Zhang Jiulian usually welcomes ourists to her bed-and-breakfast n the Lianhua mountains, an lour’s drive north of Beijing. But SARS spreading in China’s apital. she sat beside a makeshift oadblock Thursday with a hand- ettered sign saying, “Terribly orry, no access to outsiders.” The same sentiments were md throughout Beijing’s out- nJdrts, where people are sealing )ff villages to keep out the SARS virus. They’ve thrown up oadblocks of dirt, boulders, logs imi ind sometimes just an old man raving a stick. “People are scared of us. We’re scared of people. It’s a icary time,” Zhang said, turning year-old son Alia iwa y visitors at her stone home SARS thriving in Beijing In recent weeks, the SARS outbreak slowed in China's south where the outbreak began, but numbers grew in the north. MONGOLIA , Jilin Magnitudes. earthquake <EY SYRIA JSGS; ESRI; •ess id in the debris, students were te id. ol, a bridge and at lea|tj 0l igs collapsed, Karaaslan on Id be seen t ty. where the sw i with terrified aid that officials la! d any lessons froi juakes becauses meted buildings ory were allows ; quake-prone region rids of buildings col :n two massive uck western Torktj d killed about hiding is made Remzi Sonmeias) ont of the where his 8-yeii was trapped, nore money it Probable SARS cases by province: April 23rd NZi\ Inner Mongolia Gansu o Liaoning NORTH KOREA Ningxia H I Sichuan o ^ ^ Shanxi Shaanxi H % ian o Hubei Beijiri! O-i fianjin ■Hobos Shandong SOUTH KOREA Anhui Hunan NEPAL INDIA BHUTAN BANG. Bay of Bengal MYANMAR 500 mi Guangxj VIETNAM LAOS Yellow Sea Shanghai Zhejiang East China Sea o TAIWAN Fujian O 500 km Hong Kong a resigned smile. Those fears are likely to om severe acute respiratory yndrome continues to rise. The • their injuries onm OTa j n as | 0 ng as the death toll I out near the flatten: Naim Gencgul, a oy, was pulled outi j ea |th Ministry reported ll with a broken aim. Mre fatalities Thursday 'hole building wasa CTen 0 f them in Beijing We all startedscraa )fj n gj n g China’s death toll to . There were 187 new infec- ms, raising the number of cases to 3,647. Throughout China, millions were staying home for the May Day holiday after the govem- cut the week long vacation to five days and banned travel in lopes of containing the disease, leijing’s tourist sites from Tiananmen Square to the majes- ticGreat Wall were nearly empty. Shopping centers were quiet and iny restaurants closed down. Dozens of tourists still passed Zhang’s “Farmer’s Family Garden," one of dozens of little farmhouse inns in the scenic area just north of the famous Tombs. But she could do pore than hand out name SOURCES: Associated Press; ESRI cards and ask them to return later. How much later, she didn’t know, although she said county health officials told her the clo sures could last three months. About a half-hour drive from Zhang’s place, a wheelbarrow blocked off the road to the village of Houniufang. A stern-faced man with a crewcut and a red armband reading “Security Patrol" said no outsiders were allowed. A road side stand was set up to disinfec tant residents’ vehicles. It wasn’t clear whether the village roadblocks were consid ered a violation of an order by China’s central government this week banning local communities from blocking traffic from Beijing and other hard-hit areas. One township official said his local government had authorized the roadblocks. Such measures weren’t legal ly authorized, but police weren’t going to intervene, said an offi cer manning a toll booth further up the road at the border with AP Hebei province. “These are extreme times, so we need to take extreme meas ures,” the officer, Wang Quanzhi, said. Beside him, Hebei provincial health workers in surgical masks and smocks were spraying disin fectant from backpack units on trucks entering the province from Beijing. Drivers were standing at a table having their temperatures taken and being quizzed about where they’d come from and where they were headed. Closer to Beijing, authorities dressed in white anti-infection suits began moving patients into a new l,000-bed SARS hospital erected in just over a week by thousands of workers laboring around the clock. The new hospital at Xiaotangshan is part of extensive efforts over the past two weeks to stop SARS from spreading in Beijing, where 82 people have died ot the disease and l ,570 have been sickened. 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