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To: RealMuLan who wrote (780)	9/20/2003 11:44:59 AM
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China moves to calm Sars jitters with daily updates HK also nervous after 9 elderly people are hospitalised BEIJING - China's Health Ministry resumed its daily reporting on the Sars epidemic yesterday, state media said, in another indication that the government is far from ruling out a return of the deadly virus. Visit our Sars webspecial for more related stories The ministry, which reported no confirmed or suspected Sars cases, said the daily reporting was resumed to meet requests from the public, the Xinhua news agency said. The China News Service said, meanwhile, that a national system for containing the severe acute respiratory syndrome, should it re-emerge, was now in place. Medical experts have also contributed to preparing the country for future outbreaks of the flu-like virus with a detailed evaluation of the efforts made when it struck earlier this year. The experts focused their research on the origin and spread of the disease, as well as measures to improve monitoring and disinfection, according to the agency. Hong Kong, too, is on a Sars alert. The Health Department said yesterday it believes that nine residents of a retirement home hospitalised with fever and respiratory infections do not have Sars. Two of the nine patients have tested positive for influenza, ruling out Sars, department spokesman Eva Wong said. Results for the other seven were not immediately available, but officials suspect they have the same illness, she said. Their latest condition was not immediately known. They were stable on Thursday. No new cases have emerged since the outbreak was brought under control in Hong Kong in May, but several recent false alarms have sparked jitters. Sars emerged in southern Guangdong province late last year and quickly spread to become a global threat. It infected more than 8,000 people and left more than 900 dead in 32 countries, with 349 of the fatalities in China and 299 in Hong Kong. -- AFP, AP straitstimes.asia1.com.sg