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Moscow expels 500 Chinese, Vietnamese amid SARS fears
Yahoo News ^
| June 3, 2003
| staff
Posted on 06/04/2003 9:59:09 AM PDT by Judith Anne
MOSCOW (AFP) - Some 500 citizens of China and Vietnam have been expelled from Moscow and deported over fears of the spread of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS (news - web sites)), a top police official said.
RIA Novosti reported Tuesday that Vladimir Pronin, of the city's police department, reported during a city government meeting that fears over SARS meant that "all prostitutes (from former Soviet republics) also had to be expelled from the city."
Russia has implemented a series of drastic measures in a bid to fend off SARS, closing down most of its border crossings with China and Mongolia and almost entirely shutting down air travel to China.
It shares a border thousands of kilometers (miles) long with China, the country worst affected by the disease with more than 5,300 infections and 334 deaths.
TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: china; mongolia; moscow; russia; sars
I guess they don't believe that China has conquered SARS....
To: aristeides; blam; riri; flutters; per loin; FL_engineer; Truth29; CathyRyan; Prince Charles; ...
ping
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posted on
06/04/2003 10:00:41 AM PDT
by
Judith Anne
(The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.)
To: Judith Anne
too bad we dont have their gumption
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posted on
06/04/2003 10:07:51 AM PDT
by
joesnuffy
(Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
You wanted to know about the Russian border to China closing...
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posted on
06/04/2003 10:16:10 AM PDT
by
Judith Anne
(The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.)
To: Judith Anne
Thank you...I knew you would come through. I express my deepest gratitude with supplications and beggings of compassion, etc., etc. ;-D
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Always happy to oblige, if possible, I consider it no less than my duty, I remain your humble servant, etc. etc. ;-D
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posted on
06/04/2003 10:21:04 AM PDT
by
Judith Anne
(The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.)
To: Judith Anne
Anybody know why they closed the border with Mongolia? I've seen reports of SARS in Inner Mongolia (part of China), but not the independent state of (Outer) Mongolia.
To: aristeides
There was that one story of one Russian, a soldier I think, who got SARS near the border, other than that, I don't recall any articles about Russian SARS...very quiet, kinda funny...
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06/04/2003 10:46:22 AM PDT
by
Judith Anne
(The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.)
To: Judith Anne
"There was that one story of one Russian, a soldier I think, who got SARS near the border, other than that, I don't recall any articles about Russian SARS...very quiet, kinda funny..." That's the only one I have heard about too.
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06/04/2003 1:16:51 PM PDT
by
blam
To: Judith Anne
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