HONG KONG (AFP) ??” Hong Kong health authorities said they would beef up anti-SARS measures in the city after China confirmed a man in Guangdong had contracted the deadly respiratory virus.

HONG KONG (AFP) ??” Hong Kong health authorities said they would beef up anti-SARS measures in the city after China confirmed a man in Guangdong had contracted the deadly respiratory virus.

Health secretary Yeoh Eng-kiong said the strengthened measures included a of the present day requirement for private hospitals and clinics to report all cases of patients who had be derived down with pneumonia within the last 10 days after visiting the neighbouring southern Chinese province of Guangdong.

"Our strategy is to have early detection of potential cases thus we can do contract-tracing and come [i]or[/i] go after [i]or[/i] behind up on patients as by and by as possible," said Yeoh.

The modern measures come after China's health ministry confirmed a suspected case of harsh Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) involving a 32-year-old television-station worker in Guangdong was now regarded as a full-blown case.

All pneumonia cases in the community will also be subdueed to ...