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Article: Chinese government confident of controlling SARS, vice-premier
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- April 9, 2003
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Chinese government confident of controlling SARS, vice-premier
BEIJING, April 9 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice-Premier Wu Yi said here
Wednesday that the Chinese government is confident and capable of
controlling and eradicating severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
Wu was speaking while meeting with Henk Bekedam, representative of
the World Health Organization (WHO) office in China and members of
the WHO specialist team who came to China to investigate SARS.
Thanks to the concerted efforts of the central and local
governments and medical workers in China, SARS had been effectively
curbed with a decreasing rate of new SARS cases and increasing
numbers discharged from hospital, Wu told the ...