SARS: Canada orders hundreds into quarantine

Hundreds more people in Canada have been told to quarantine themselves at home due to possible exposure to a new cluster of SARS cases in Toronto, health officials said.

The nine probable cases and 23 suspected cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome first identified last week put Canada’s largest city back on a World Health Organisation list of SARS-affected areas. Three more probable cases from the initial Toronto outbreak also remained in hospital.