Asian success fades by SARS resurgence

As life began returning to normal in SARS hotspots Beijing and Hong Kong, Canadian health officials were probing a suspected new infection cluster in its financial hub Toronto, where three more deaths clocked up a toll of 27.

Authorities in Toronto have asked more than 800 people to enter quarantine in an effort to control the fresh outbreak, which surfaced 12 days after the World Health Organisation (WHO) took the city off its danger list.

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The experience of Canada, the worst SARS-affected country outside of Asia, comes as a stark warning to other nations already toasting success in combating the pneumonia-like epidemic which has killed some 700 people worldwide.

On Friday the WHO lifted an advisory against travel to Hong Kong and southern China's Guangdong province, where the disease is believed to have originated in November.