Another six Sars deaths in Hong Kong
Hong Kong has announced another six deaths from Sars today.
Despite 25 Sars deaths in the territory over the last three days, authorities were planning to reopen schools shut on March 29 and Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa said officials were making “good progress” tackling the disease.
He said quarantine measures and efforts to find people who may have come into contact with Sars victims seem to be working, helping to identify 150 suspected Sars cases. “The figures are stabilised,” he said.
Hong Kong has suffered the heaviest impact worldwide with 94 fatalities and nearly 1,400 people sickened. Twenty-two new cases were reported today. So far 436 people have recovered from the disease in the territory.
