China 'Safe' Despite SARS Epidemic: FM Spokesman

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China 'Safe' Despite SARS Epidemic: FM Spokesman

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China is taking active measures toprevent the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) which has been reported in Guangdong, Beijing and Shanxi, and it is safe to live in or visit the country, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Tuesday.

Spokesman Liu Jianchao said that only Guangdong, Beijing and Shanxi reported cases of the disease, and both central and local governments and health authorities had worked hard to control the disease, and their efforts were "praised by experts of the World Health Organization."

China's national center for disease prevention and control had drawn up a technical scheme for local health authorities to control the disease, including criteria for the diagnosis of SARS patients. The health department of Guangdong Province had also taken sterilization measures in some public places, Liu said.

Most Guangdong patients had gradually recovered and been discharged from hospital, and cases in Beijing and Shanxi failed to spread, Liu said.

The Ministry of Health had ordered provincial health departments to tighten surveillance and control of contagious respiratory illnesses during the spring, he said.

"As long as proper preventive measures are taken, it is safe tolive in or visit China," Liu said.

He expected local authorities to publish new data on the epidemic shortly.

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