The Beijing municipal government will hold a special press conference on SARS each Tuesday and Friday beginning April 25.
Beijing officials will brief the media on the latest developments on severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in the Chinese capital and answer their questions.
The press conference currently underway on Friday is being hosted by Cai Fuchao, director of the Publicity Department of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), and Guo Jiyong, deputy-director of the Beijing Municipal Health Bureau.
As of 8:00 p.m. on April 23, Beijing had reported a total of 774 SARS cases, of which 64 were discharged from hospital upon recovery and 39 had died.
(Xinhua News Agency April 25, 2003)
