TAIPEI: A Toronto high school was closed and its 1,700 students were in quarantine yesterday amid renewed SARS fears in Canada's largest city, while Taiwan reported its biggest increase in new cases of the disease in nearly a week.
While agents in southern China were seizing foxes, snakes and other game in a new ban on the wildlife trade that followed evidence of the virus jumping from wild animals to humans, neighbouring Hong Kong considered outlawing the marketplace slaughter of chickens.