Beijing 'Effectively Contains' SARS among Students

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Beijing 'Effectively Contains' SARS among Students

Beijing has "effectively contained" the spread of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in its education sector, a municipal anti-SARS official said Tuesday.

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Beijing has "effectively contained" the spread of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in its education sector, a municipal anti-SARS official said Tuesday.

Zhu Shanlu, deputy team leader of Beijing's joint anti-SARS team said at a press conference that the students in Beijing have turned to the low-case group.

The full-time schools reported no clinically diagnosed SARS cases among students for 11 days, Zhu said.

Beijing has 2.8 million students in school. As of 10:00 am, May 19, the city reported 391 SARS cases among the students and teachers, another 38 students and teachers had been discharged from hospitals upon recovery and 16 died, Zhu said.

The mobility rate among students is 0.006 percent, Zhu said, noting the teachers and students have now a "stable state of mind" and the order of the schools is going back to normal.

The municipal government will not loosen guard in case of the rebound of the disease, Zhu said.

Beijing will make efforts to prevent the occurrence of relapse of SARS among the students and teachers after resumption of classes from May 22, the official said.

Zhu said the municipal government will put top priority to the health and safety of students and teachers after they go back to school batch by batch and region by region in light of the situation.

To exclude the possibility of occurrence of relapse, the students will go back to school gradually instead of in a whole batch from May 22, he said.

The municipal government has made the decision to resume the normal order of schools and universities to make up the lessons the students missed, he said

Those students living in districts with dense population can continue to study through the classroom in the air and on-line program, Zhu added.

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