In related news, a World Health Organization expert said yesterday that Beijing hospitals are failing to record some possible SARS cases, leading to possible underreporting of the size of the Chinese capital's outbreak.
His comments came as China announced its lowest nationwide daily increase in infections in weeks.
The Health Ministry reported four new SARS deaths and 39 new cases -- a fraction of the increase announced early in the Month when China was reporting more than 150 new cases a day.
Shanghai, the country's biggest city, reported its second death -- a 54-year-old man who wasn't hospitalized until he was gravely ill and had infected his wife.
Severe acute respiratory syndrome has killed 275 people in the country and infected 5,191.
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