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| Health Ministry: SARS epidemic plateaus in Beijing |
| CCTV.COM 2003-05-04 13:05:48 |
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Senior health officials say the SARS situation in Beijing has plateaued. They base this assessment on figures released on Thursday by the Health Ministry.
Liang Wannian, Deputy Director of Beijing Municipal Health Bureau, says Beijing's SARS epidemic seems to be going through a stable period with the upward trend contained.
He says the SARS caseload in the capital will probably drop in the next ten days if the virus does not mutate. It will also depend on whether the virus takes the same course in the capital as it did in Guangdong Province and Hong Kong.
Liang says that, as time goes by, group－immunity is expected to develop among people, forming an immunity－shield for the vulnerable.
Cai Fuchao, Director of the Publicity Department of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, maintains there are so far no confirmed SARS cases in the rural areas surrounding Beijing. He rules out any exodus of college students in Beijing panicking over SARS. Students who applied to return to their hometown first had to pass a medical examination, and they were not allowed to travel to any SARS－infected places, rural areas or the western region.
Cai Fuchao says 39 of the 670,000 college students in the capital have contracted the illness.
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Editor: Hou Meihong CCTV.com
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