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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.
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to
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yndrome continues to rise. The
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. 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
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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
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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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