Guangdong Preventing Suspected SARS Patients from Boarding Airplanes

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Guangdong Preventing Suspected SARS Patients from Boarding Airplanes

Stringent measures have been implemented at Baiyun International Airport in Guangzhou to ensure SARS patients and suspected SARS carriers are not able to enter any aircraft.

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Stringent measures have been implemented at Baiyun International Airport in Guangzhou to ensure SARS patients and suspected SARS carriers are not able to enter any aircraft.

Yang Yuanyuan, director general of the General Administration of Civil Aviation of China (CAAC), said recently that during his inspection of SARS prevention work in the airports of Guangdong province that it is no longer possible for aircraft to be an infecting channel of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).

To reassure travelers, Baiyun Airport has worked out a SARS prevention and control counter-plan, according to which a quarantine station has been set up in the waiting hall. Any travelers who have a cough or fever will be given a thorough medical check-up and anyone who is suspected of suffering from SARS symptoms will be quarantined immediately and given emergency treatment.

A special team was also organized at the airport to take charge of investigating the epidemic situation and giving emergency treatment if the lethal illness is spotted.

Disinfection of the airport's waiting halls has also been beefed up, and all airport facilities, including bathrooms, elevators, telephones, boarding counters, chairs, shuttle buses and even filters in air-conditioners, are disinfected every day.

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