Posted on 04/04/2003 2:44:11 AM PST by JohnHuang2
WHO OFFICIAL SAYS SARS EPIDEMIC IN SINGAPORE 'ALMOST CERTAINLY OVER', NEXT 1-2 WEEKS CRUCIAL
REUTERS
04/04/03 05:35 ET
| Time | Number of cases | Percentage Increase | Number of current deaths as a percentage of case totals on previous days | ||||||||||||
| Day | Date | New | Total | Day | Week | Recovered | Deaths | Today | Day ago | 2 Days | 3 Days | 4 Days | 5 Days | 6 Days | Week |
| Wed | 03/19 | 150 | |||||||||||||
| Thu | 03/20 | 23 | 173 | 15.33% | |||||||||||
| Fri | 03/21 | 30 | 203 | 17.34% | |||||||||||
| Sat | 03/22 | 19 | 222 | 9.36% | |||||||||||
| Sun | 03/23 | 25 | 247 | 11.26% | |||||||||||
| Mon | 03/24 | 13 | 260 | 5.26% | |||||||||||
| Tue | 03/25 | 26 | 286 | 10.00% | |||||||||||
| Wed | 03/26 | 30 | 316 | 10.49% | 110.67% | ||||||||||
| Thu | 03/27 | 51 | 367 | 16.14% | 112.14% | ||||||||||
| Fri | 03/28 | 58 | 425 | 15.80% | 109.36% | ||||||||||
| Sat | 03/29 | 45 | 470 | 10.59% | 111.71% | 10 | 2.13% | 2.35% | 2.72% | 3.16% | 3.50% | 3.85% | 4.05% | 4.50% | |
| Sun | 03/30 | 60 | 530 | 12.77% | 114.57% | 13 | 2.45% | 2.77% | 3.06% | 3.54% | 4.11% | 4.55% | 5.00% | 5.26% | |
| Mon | 03/31 | 80 | 610 | 15.09% | 134.62% | 15 | 2.46% | 2.83% | 3.19% | 3.53% | 4.09% | 4.75% | 5.24% | 5.77% | |
| Tue | 04/1 | 75 | 685 | 12.30% | 139.51% | 16 | 2.34% | 2.62% | 3.02% | 3.40% | 3.76% | 4.36% | 5.06% | 5.59% | |
| Wed | 04/2 | 23 | 708 | 3.36% | 124.05% | 89 | 16 | 2.26% | 2.34% | 2.62% | 3.02% | 3.40% | 3.76% | 4.36% | 5.06% |
| Thu | 04/3 | 26 | 734 | 3.67% | 100.00% | 98 | 17 | 2.32% | 2.40% | 2.48% | 2.79% | 3.21% | 3.62% | 4.00% | 4.63% |
| Fri | 04/4 | 27 | 761 | 3.68% | 79.06% | 99 | 17 | 2.23% | 2.32% | 2.40% | 2.48% | 2.79% | 3.21% | 3.62% | 4.00% |
| Averages | 10.78% | 113.57% | 2.31% | 2.52% | 2.79% | 3.13% | 3.55% | 4.01% | 4.48% | 4.98% | |||||
http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030404.uscie0404/BNStory/National
Hong Kong - Fears over the spread of the killer atypical pneumonia sweeping Hong Kong heightened Friday when 10 more health workers were found to have the virus, a health chief said.
The staff of the territory's public United Christian Hospital were diagnosed with severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars), acting Chief Executive of the Hospital Authority, Ko Wing-man, told reporters. He said the medical workers had been infected at the hospital, where they were treating 150 Sars victims.
Many of the patients were residents of Amoy Gardens, the public housing estate that was was closed off earlier this week.
Hundreds of residents from the estate were put in quarantine following the discovery of a cluster of Sars infections in one of its high-rise apartment blocks.
Ko called the latest outbreak "worrying" and added that he believed the new cases had contracted the potentially fatal virus from a hospital patient who was suffering from the disease. >P? Authorities were now trying to trace people who had come into contact with the patient in an attempt to stop a second hospital outbreak. >P? Many medical workers at the Prince of Wales Hospital were infected last month, including 17 medical students from the Chinese University, after coming into contact with a patient who had contracted Sars.
The virus has so far affected 734 people, about 190 of which were health workers. Seventeen people have died of the illness in Hong Kong. >P? The government reported on Thursday the first death of a health care worker from Sars. >P? However, a Hospital Authority spokespersonn stressed that Dr Lau Tai-kwan, 56, who had a history of chronic heart disease, had not been treating Sars patients and it was not yet known how he contracted the mystery killer virus. >P? A department of health spokesperson said 81 of Lau's patients had been screened for Sars, and seven were being monitored in hospital as suspected Sars cases. >P? To cope with the growing number of Sars cases, the treatment of sufferers has been given priority and other non-essential operations throughout the territory have been postponed.
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