China closes another hospital as panic buyers stock up
Patients and 2,000 workers from a Beijing hospital that was hastily sealed were under observation Friday today for symptoms of the Sars virus, as fearful residents emptied grocery stores of rice, oil and frozen food in a bout of panic buying.
The People’s Hospital of Peking University was the second medical unit in the Chinese capital to close because of severe acute respiratory syndrome, which has killed 39 people in Beijing and 110 nationwide.
