SARS-related Deaths Rise to 53 in China's Mainland

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SARS-related Deaths Rise to 53 in China's Mainland

The figure of deaths from atypical pneumonia on the Chinese mainland increased to 53, as the number of cases rose to 1,268 Monday, according to the health Ministry.

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The figure of deaths from atypical pneumonia on the Chinese mainland increased to 53, as the number of cases rose to 1,268 Monday, according to the health Ministry.

On the ministry's website, a press release posted on Monday indicated that Guangdong Province in south China, had so far reported 1,203 cases and 43 deaths.

Nevertheless, it said that in general infection cases "are decreasing slowly."

Beijing and Shanxi Province in the north reported 19 with four deaths and 24 cases with one death respectively.

Other Chinese provinces reporting atypical pneumonia cases included: Guangxi, 11 cases and three deaths; Hunan, six cases and one death; Sichuan, four cases and one death; Shanghai, one case and no death.

Qi Xiaoqiu, the ministry's official in charge of disease control, told a press conference on Sunday that China's mainland had 1,247 infected people, of whom 51 had died.

Pekka Aro, a Finnish official with the International Labor Organization who died of atypical pneumonia in Beijing early Sunday morning, was one of the two recent deaths. Another patient died in Shanxi, according to sources with the ministry.

The Ministry of Health's website said all cases were "imported" except those in Guangdong.

The rate of infections among medical workers has dropped to 25 percent from 33 percent, it said.

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