Chinese mainland's last two patients of complications caused by
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) have fully recovered and
were discharged from hospital Saturday after more than 100 days of
medical treatment.
The two patients, Lu Zhiyan, a 45-year-old medical worker, and
Sun Zheng, a 19-year-old university student, left the Ditan
Hospital in Beijing at 9:40 am Saturday.
The two were hospitalized in April after being diagnosed as SARS
patients. Doctors declared that the two patients were free of SARS
symptoms more than 20 days ago. They stayed in hospital to date to
undergone treatment on complications caused by SARS.
(Xinhua News Agency August 16, 2003)