April 18, 2003
Chinatown hit by Sars rumours
Last night I went with Mir to a Chinese restaurant in Chinatown. It was a bit quieter than usual. Perhaps this report in the Guardian is right:
"Britain's Chinese restaurants have reported a downturn in trade after customers were frightened by rumours that staffs were infected with the Sars virus. Alarm is so high that one restaurant placed an advert in a Chinese language newspaper denying that some of its staff had the virus."
There have been six suspected British cases of the virus. Well, yet another deadly virus to worry about!
Posted by mehrdad at April 18, 2003 02:20 PM | Journal 2003 |