Sars travel 'ban' on Beijing lifted
12 April 2012
The World Health Organisation today lifted its warning on travel to Beijing, the only place remaining on its Sars blacklist.
It also took China's capital, once the world's most Sars-affected city, off its list of areas where the respiratory disease is still spreading.
The decision - the latest sign that the disease is being controlled - leaves only Taiwan and Toronto as places where the WHO fears continuing contagion.
The flu-like disease has infected 5,326 people in China and killed 347 of them since it first appeared last November.
Taiwan said today it would ask the WHO to remove the island from the list of Sars-affected places later this week.
