Cover-up of SARS Cases not Found: Official

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Cover-up of SARS Cases not Found: Official

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A senior official of China's Health Ministry Sunday denied cover-up of SARS situation by any localities on the mainland, saying it is important to separate inaccuracy of figures from intentional cover-up.

Gao Qiang, executive vice-ministry of the health, at a press conference so far, no local governments had been found to cover up the situation concerning severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).

"There is an essential different between inaccuracy of SARS statistics and intentional cover-up of the situation of the disease," he said.

Gao said the central government had already dispatched supervision groups to several localities to scrutinize and confirm the SARS statistics released by local governments.

If any localities were found covering up of the SARS situation there, the officials in charge would be punished severely, and the general public let known timely, he said.

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