Plane to evacuate tour group in Taiwan
The 12 deaths from Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome a record one-day high that has been hit for the third time bring the local death toll to 150, the highest in the world.
The tour group of more than 30 people had been confined in a hotel in Taipei since April 26 after a six-year-old girl among them was suspected to have contracted SARS and sent to hospital.
