Wednesday, April 30, 2003
Manila to host regional airport officials meeting on Sars (4:07 pm)
MANILA -- An international meeting of airport authorities is to be held in the Philippines on May 16 to address the threat of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) epidemic, officials said Wednesday.
The one-day meeting is part of the common quarantine procedures agreed by Southeast Asian leaders who held an emergency meeting on the Sars outbreak in the Thai capital Bangkok on Tuesday, President Arroyo said in a statement.
"The Philippines will host the airport authorities' meeting on May 16," she said.
It would be held either at the Clark or Subic airport north of Manila, Judith Dolot, Manila airport'S spokeswoman, told reporters.
She said about 300 airport officials from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) -- Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, as well as from Canada, China, Japan, South Korea and the United States -- are expected to take part.
The meeting would discuss means of preventing the spread of Sars, Dolot added. AFP
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