ˇˇ BEIJING, April 27 (Xinhuanet) -- All major Beijing-based media will publish
from Sunday the number of SARS cases in every district and county of the
previous day and the information on thelatest quarantine areas as well as the
number of quarantined people.
ˇˇˇˇThe Beijing SARS-control working group issued the order on Sunday, saying
the city would make SARS information more transparent and try to curb the spread
of the disease by issuing the information for another 18 districts and counties
and quarantine areas as well as the number of the quarantined people.
ˇˇˇˇBy 10:00 a.m. on Apr. 27, Beijing took quarantine control measures in the
following areas: a residential quarter of Renmin Hospital, a residential
building of the Central University of Finance and Economics, three dormitory
buildings in the Northern Jiaotong University and two dormitory buildings in
Beijing Scienceand Technology Research Institute and a construction site in
Dongcheng district.
ˇˇˇˇThe quarantine control was also taken in the entire area of Renmin
Hospital, 24 designated SARS patient hospitals, and in the SARS patient
reception areas of 29 general hospitals as well as the fever outpatient
departments in 74 hospitals.
ˇˇˇˇBy 10:00 a.m. on Apr. 27, a total of 7,672 people had been quarantined for
close contact with SARS patients or suspected SARScarriers and 1,384 people had
been discharged from quarantine. Enditem