Another three health workers from Macao's Government Hospital were sent to isolation camps Monday for having contacted the first confirmed SARS patient here, adding the total number of quarantined health workers to eight.
The first confirmed Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) patient was in stable condition without suffering from shortness in breathing, though he still had fever and infection in the lungs, according to Macao's SARS task force.
The Macao Center of Disease Prevention and Control (MCDPC) found two more medical assistants and a nurse who had attended the SARS patient without wearing adequate personal protection equipment before the patient was diagnosed of SARS on May 10.
None of the eight isolated medical staff showed symptoms of SARS, and the two isolated patients who had been in the same ward with the SARS patient were in fine condition and showed no symptoms of SARS, Macao's Health Service confirmed Monday.
MCDPC said that family members and friends of the isolated medical workers needed not to be isolated.
For people who shared the same bus with the SARS carrier when he entered Macao's land checkpoint of Gongbei from Zhuhai on his way to the hospital, MCDPC said that the chance of being infected was little, since they only had social contact with the patient and the bus was regularly disinfected.
(Xinhua News Agency May 13, 2003)
