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Singapore/Beijing (pte011/22.04.2003/10:00) - Singapore health officials quarantined 2500 employees from a vegetable market in Singapore over the Easter weekend, reports the Straits Times http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg . Among the quarantined are three people infected with the virus. The market will be closed until further notice. Officials are trying to keep the virus from spreading to the main city. In the last five weeks 1500 people have been under house quarantine over a period of 10 days.
To date there have been 178 cases of SARS sufferers in the economic capital. Singapore is expecting huge economic losses because of problems related to SARS. The government recently corrected their revenue of 2 and 5 per cent to 0.5 and 2.5 per cent.
In China two provinces have closed down schools for a period of one month. In Peking, where the government has been attacked by world health officials for keeping known cases of SARS from the public, 300 more cases of the disease were discovered around Easter.
China, with 1800 infected and 79 dead, officially has the highest record of SARS patients. So far worldwide 203 have died from the disease. Those infected with the deadly virus number 3800.
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