Chinese travellers wear masks to ward off the deadly Severe Acute
Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) at Beijing Capital Airport April 19, 2003.
China said on Sunday it was cancelling the Labour Day "Golden Week"
holidays to avoid the spread of SARS. The Health Ministry raised its
count of SARS cases in China's capital almost 10-fold after they
admitted there were 339 people infected with SARS and 402 suspected
cases as of April 18. Eighteen people had died. Picture taken April 19.
REUTERS/Wilson Chu

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