HONG KONG: The Government here has sealed off a block of apartments for 10 days in a desperate effort to stem the spread of the atypical pneumonia after it was declared as the new epicentre for the deadly severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
In the past 12 hours alone, 88 more residents of Amoy Gardens had been warded for the disease bringing the total number of victims from the neighbourhood to 213 – almost half the total number of those infected in the territory.
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