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WHO says worst of SARS is over in Singapore, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Canada
Canadian Press
Monday, April 28, 2003
CREDIT: (AP/Vincent Yu)
Wearing surgical masks in addition to their regular uniforms, students from The Pooi To Middle School arrive at their school, Monday in Hong Kong.(AP/Vincent Yu)
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BANGKOK (CP) - The World Health Organization said Monday that the worst of SARS outbreak is over in Singapore, Hong Kong, Canada and Vietnam, but warned that it appears to be spreading in China.
"It appears from the reports we have from Hong Kong, from Singapore, from Toronto and from Vietnam that the epidemic has peaked in those countries," said WHO chief of communicable diseases David Heymann.
He said those countries "are having fewer cases every day, and in some cases no more such as Vietnam. So we are hoping and it appears that the outbreak has peaked in those countries."
Canada, which has the biggest outbreak of SARS outside of Asia, reported its 21st victim on Sunday.
Heymann, who is in Bangkok to attend an emergency summit on SARS of Southeast Asian leaders Tuesday, said the situation is worrisome in China.
"In China, as you know, we are receiving more and more reports of cases and it doesn't appear it has peaked as far as spread" of the disease is concerned, Heymann told reporters.
There were eight new fatalities in China and five in Hong Kong reported on Monday, raising the worldwide death toll for severe acute respiratory syndrome to at least 132, mostly in China and Hong Kong. It has sickened around 5,000 people.
Heymann said experts are aware of SARS infections in Beijing, Shanghai and some other provinces.
"What we are trying to do is clarify exactly how many cases are occurring with the Chinese. And this has been difficult for the Chinese government because as you know health has been decentralized in China from the provincial level," Heymann said.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa will also attend Tuesday's summit of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Bangkok. The summit will aim to formulate strategies to fight the disease.
The WHO on Monday also declared that Vietnam is the world's first country to contain its SARS outbreak, and lifted all advisories against travel to the communist country.
"Vietnam has been able to show the world that there is hope that SARS can be contained," Pascale Brudon, WHO representative in Vietnam, told a joint news conference with the Health Ministry in Hanoi. "It is a very good day for all of us in Vietnam."
No new cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome have been reported in Vietnam since April 8. WHO has set a 20-day window - double the disease's incubation period - as the standard for lifting travel advisories and declaring that an outbreak is no longer spreading.
© Copyright 2003 The Canadian Press
Canadian Press
Monday, April 28, 2003
CREDIT: (AP/Vincent Yu)
Wearing surgical masks in addition to their regular uniforms, students from The Pooi To Middle School arrive at their school, Monday in Hong Kong.(AP/Vincent Yu)
ADVERTISEMENT
BANGKOK (CP) - The World Health Organization said Monday that the worst of SARS outbreak is over in Singapore, Hong Kong, Canada and Vietnam, but warned that it appears to be spreading in China.
"It appears from the reports we have from Hong Kong, from Singapore, from Toronto and from Vietnam that the epidemic has peaked in those countries," said WHO chief of communicable diseases David Heymann.
He said those countries "are having fewer cases every day, and in some cases no more such as Vietnam. So we are hoping and it appears that the outbreak has peaked in those countries."
Canada, which has the biggest outbreak of SARS outside of Asia, reported its 21st victim on Sunday.
Heymann, who is in Bangkok to attend an emergency summit on SARS of Southeast Asian leaders Tuesday, said the situation is worrisome in China.
"In China, as you know, we are receiving more and more reports of cases and it doesn't appear it has peaked as far as spread" of the disease is concerned, Heymann told reporters.
There were eight new fatalities in China and five in Hong Kong reported on Monday, raising the worldwide death toll for severe acute respiratory syndrome to at least 132, mostly in China and Hong Kong. It has sickened around 5,000 people.
Heymann said experts are aware of SARS infections in Beijing, Shanghai and some other provinces.
"What we are trying to do is clarify exactly how many cases are occurring with the Chinese. And this has been difficult for the Chinese government because as you know health has been decentralized in China from the provincial level," Heymann said.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa will also attend Tuesday's summit of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Bangkok. The summit will aim to formulate strategies to fight the disease.
The WHO on Monday also declared that Vietnam is the world's first country to contain its SARS outbreak, and lifted all advisories against travel to the communist country.
"Vietnam has been able to show the world that there is hope that SARS can be contained," Pascale Brudon, WHO representative in Vietnam, told a joint news conference with the Health Ministry in Hanoi. "It is a very good day for all of us in Vietnam."
No new cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome have been reported in Vietnam since April 8. WHO has set a 20-day window - double the disease's incubation period - as the standard for lifting travel advisories and declaring that an outbreak is no longer spreading.
© Copyright 2003 The Canadian Press
