Tuesday, December 30, 2003
A suspected case of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) in southern Guangdong province was upgraded on Tuesday to a confirmed case, a senior provincial health official said.
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| A girl wears a mask on Hong Kong's Mass Transit railway on Tuesday after a confirmed case of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) virus returned to haunt China in southern Guangong province. -- AFP |
The 32-year-old freelance journalist identified only as Luo developed a fever on Dec 16 and was hospitalised with pneumonia in the right lung on Dec 20.
'The case has been confirmed,' Mr Feng Shaoming, spokesman for the Guangdong Centre for Disease Control said.
'Our experts at the Centre for Disease Control have made many tests and they are all positive.
Three experts from the WHO were in the provincial capital of Guangzhou on Tuesday and were going over the test results, Mr Feng said.
He added that the case would not be officially upgraded to a confirmed case until the Ministry of Health made a formal announcement.
Mr Wang Maowu, director of the national Chinese Centre for Disease Control, said a statement was likely to be issued on Wednesday
By: DocMemory
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