The World Health Organization's latest SARS report has described
Hong Kong's efforts in fighting the disease as heroic.
The report noted that, in some cases, Hong Kong's measures to
prevent SARS' spread exceed those recommended by WHO.
Particularly impressive among the measures are exit-screening
procedures at checkpoints, publication of information on all
buildings where residents have developed SARS.
Others are procedures for isolation and quarantine, and aggressive
contract tracing that relies on a system initially developed by the
police force for use in criminal investigations.
WHO's Executive Director for Communicable Diseases, David Heymann
is quoted as saying he and his colleagues have nothing but
admiration for Hong Kong's health workers.
(CRI. May 8, 2003)