SARS outbreak has increased here the past few days. The Govt has closed schools from Pre-Pri to Junior Colleges till the first Sunday of April after the first death by SARS occurred.
SARS is an atypical pneumonia for which cause has not been determined. It has spread to 12 countries with 487 SARS cases and it has been increasing. Especially among the medical people who treated the earlier patients without ample protection.
The cause of this has not been determined but earlier cases were traced back to Hong Kong and China.
Besides closing down schools, the Govt has issued quarantined orders to almost 740 people who has families, friends, or worked in hospitals with SARS patients for them to stay home to prevent the spreading of the disease.
Those who are out there…do be careful.
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