JP/9/Brief2

Sat, 24 May 2003 | Source: AFP

JP/9/Brief2

Last month there were calls from some participating countries for the regional mini-Olympics to be postponed because of the SARS crisis in Vietnam and elsewhere in the region.

Vietnam, however, declared on April 28 that it had brought the spread of the virus under control after 20 days with no new infections.

Vietnam is hosting the Southeast Asian Games for the first time.

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