88 fall ill with SARS in Hong Kong
Health officials said today that 88 more people from one Hong Kong flats complex had fallen ill with the “Asian flu” mystery SARS disease, bringing the total number of cases there to 213 and sparking fears that it will keep spreading.
Hong Kong’s health secretary, Dr Yeoh Eng-kiong, announced the big rise in severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, cases in a news conference just hours after authorities imposed a tight quarantine on one block of the Amoy Gardens complex.
