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A Hong Kong tourist group, which was quarantined in a hotel in Taiwan after one of its members was suspected to be showing SARS symptoms, is on its way back to Hong Kong by a government chartered plane late Tuesday night.
The 32-member group and its leader were confined to a hotel in Taiwan on April 26 after a six-year-old girl developed a fever.
Over the past four days, the Hong Kong SAR government has been contacting the Taipei health authorities seeking better ways to resolve the issue.
A Hong Kong health official said that according to the information she had received from the Taiwan health authorities, the girl had shown no signs of fever in the past two days and that the results of the X-ray were clear. No other members of the tourist group had shown symptoms of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).
Hong Kong medical officers were on board the chartered plane during the flight to examine all group members and take their temperature.
Provided the show no symptoms of the SARS disease, all members of the group would be placed under home confinement upon their return to Hong Kong, the official said.
(Xinhua News Agency April 30, 2003)
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