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Article: UC Berkeley bars new students from SARS-affected areas
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- May 6, 2003
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UC Berkeley bars new students from SARS-affected areas
LOS ANGELES, May 5 (Xinhua) -- The University of California (UC)
in Berkeley has decided not to accept new students this summer from
several Asian countries and regions which are afflicted by severe
acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
The university will not be accepting enrollments of students from
Hong Kong, Taiwan, the Chinese mainland and Singapore, said
Chancellor Robert Berdahl in a message posted on the university's
website seen here Monday.
The decision was made "after close consultation with several
public health officials and campus experts, and based on the strong