China quarantines 500 after SARS outbreak

Nearly 500 people were in quarantine in China’s capital Beijing and a southern province today as authorities raced to contain a small eruption of SARS before a national holiday puts millions of travellers on the road.

Two confirmed cases of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome and six suspected ones have been announced over the past week, with all of them linked to people who worked in a SARS lab in Beijing.