HONG KONG: China reported its lowest daily numbers of SARS cases since April in the latest sign that the virus is retreating in Asia, but Canadian health authorities were on high alert, investigating four recent deaths possibly caused by SARS.
In Taiwan, officials handed out free thermometers in an island-wide “take-your-temperature'' campaign yesterday, amid signs containment efforts were also paying off. The number of daily infections remained in single digits for the third day in a row.