Beijing hospital closed, 4,000 quarantined
Struggling to contain Sars, Beijing officials sealed off a third hospital today, closed college dormitories and ordered 4,000 people who might have been exposed to the killer virus to stay at home under quarantine.
The closure of the Ditan Hospital in northern Beijing came less than two weeks after foreign reporters were invited to tour the facility, touted by the government as a showcase of its preparedness for severe acute respiratory syndrome.
