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〈全文转载子www.yahoo.com英文网站〉BEIJING (Reuters) - Twelve people died in Hong Kong on Saturday from the SARS virus, a record for a single day, and Singapore said the disease threatened to become its biggest crisis since independence.
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8 m5 k1 ~; W) X/ l9 b* ?% iChina, where the virus is believed to have originated last year, intensified its newly declared open war on the disease by threatening to punish officials caught covering up cases.
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The latest deaths took Hong Kong's toll to a world-leading 81 just a day after the territory' leader, Tung Chee-hwa, said the outbreak would "stabilize gradually."
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; p7 G6 x+ @4 ? N% ?& j' S: F9 RIt has now had 1,358 cases of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, almost as many as on the Chinese mainland where the deadly virus first appeared in the southern province of Guangdong, the former British colony's neighbor. $ \' `8 c1 H$ T
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/ E. [$ B) K" P3 uThe disease, which is fatal in about four percent of cases and has no known cure, has killed 172 people and infected nearly 3,500 around the world.
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/ D+ D) R3 ]% e( JHong Kong was the first place SARS erupted outside the mainland and Singapore was not far behind as air travelers carried SARS around the world to infect people in 25 countries.
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One of the infected was a male flight attendant with Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd, the first infected cabin crew member in Hong Kong.
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