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...Perhaps that's why Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian is portraying himself as a front-line crusader in the fight against the SARS virus. Chen told local reporters that he received a phone call on April 22 from a friend, a local health-care official, warning him that Taipei Municipal Hoping Hospital was covering up an outbreak of SARS among its patients and medical staff. Chen dispatched investigators from Taiwan's Center for Disease Control (CDC); within hours, the island's most serious cluster of infections since SARS first appeared here in March was exposed. The hospital was quarantined...
...recent weeks, at least eight hospitals have reported possible transmissions inside their wards; two Taipei hospitals, including Hoping, were closed. At a hospital in Taiwan's second largest metropolis, the southern city of Kaohsiung, authorities were considering quarantine measures after five people came down with SARS. Most alarming was an outbreak at the island's most prestigious medical research facility, the National Taiwan University Hospital (NTU), a regional leader in SARS treatment. The hospital has reported 10 confirmed cases of hospital transmission since May 10, of which six are medical staff, and closed its emergency room on May 12. That...
...mainland-based chairman of the Society for Promoting Taiwanese Business in Shanghai, Chang Fu-mei seldom goes home to his native island. But since returning to Taipei from Shanghai on April 30, he's had more than enough time to reacquaint himself with the inside of his house. Chang's quick trip, necessary mainly to sign a business contract, ran smack into Taiwan's mandatory 10-day quarantine for Taiwanese travelers returning from places hit by SARS. Chang has been forced to count the flowers on his wallpaper while he serves his sentence. "All I can do at home...
...plentiful, but the SARS epidemic makes mundane trips so irritating that even hardened road warriors are staying home. B.S. (Before SARS), Rahul Shukla, a director of Citigroup Global Market, had the usual peripatetic travel schedule: on the road up to five days a week, dividing his time between Taipei, Seoul, Singapore and Hong Kong. Since SARS? "Zero, almost zero," he says. "We can't enter Taiwan, Singaporeans are concerned, and even in Seoul, clients prefer conference calls...
...DIED. LIN WANG, 86, the world's oldest elephant, which was honored by the Japanese government for carrying canons and supplies for the Japanese army in Burma during World War II; in Taipei. Lin Wang had been in poor spirits since Ma Lan, his companion, died last October...