All major Beijing-based media will publish from Sunday the number of SARS cases in every district and county of the previous day and the information on the latest quarantine areas as well as the number of quarantined people.
The Beijing SARS-control working group issued the order on Sunday, saying the city would make SARS information more transparent and try to curb the spread of the disease by issuing the information for another 18 districts and counties and quarantine areas as well as the number of the quarantined people.
By 10:00 a.m. on Apr. 27, Beijing took quarantine control measures in the following areas: a residential quarter of Renmin Hospital, a residential building of the Central University of Finance and Economics, three dormitory buildings in the Northern Jiaotong University and two dormitory buildings in Beijing Science and Technology Research Institute and a construction site in Dongcheng district.
The quarantine control was also taken in the entire area of Renmin Hospital, 24 designated SARS patient hospitals, and in the SARS patient reception areas of 29 general hospitals as well as the fever outpatient departments in 74 hospitals.
By 10:00 a.m. on Apr. 27, a total of 7,672 people had been quarantined for close contact with SARS patients or suspected SARS carriers and 1,384 people had been discharged from quarantine.
(Xinhua News Agency April 28, 2003)
