- BEIJING -- As the deadly
SARS virus spread to more provinces
- and municipalities leaving a total of 92 people dead
and 2001 infected, China
- today dispatched more disease prevention and treatment
monitoring teams across
- the country to check the epidemic.
-
- The latest statistics released by the Ministry of Health
reported 2001 cases
- and 92 dead till yesterday. The toll included 25 fatalities
in Beijing, where
- authorities replaced the Mayor.
-
- The standing committee of the Beijing Municipal People's
Congress today accepted
- the resignation of Beijing mayor Meng Xuenong, and appointed
Wang Qishan
- as the acting mayor, the official Xinhua news agency
reported.
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- Out of the 2,001 patients, 1,201 have been cured and
discharged, it said.
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