At 13:00 of April 19th, Public Health Department of Liaoning Province (PHDLN) was informed by Health Bureau of Huludao City that a highly suspected SARS case was found in the Central Hospital of Huludao City. The persons in charge from the Office of Liaoning Anti-SARS Leading Group arrived at the central hospital soon. At 22:00 of April 19th, the case was diagnosed SARS by provincial experts team. This is the first extrinsic SARS case found in Liaoning province.

The patient is a female farmer named Wang, who lives in Suizhong County of Huludao City. She visited her SARS relative in Beijing from April 9th to 15th and was back to her county by April 15th. From April 17th, the patient began to feel "sustained fever, tired and uncomfortable". At 08:00 of April 19th, the initial diagnosis of highly suspected SARS and isolated treatments was then made immediately by the central hospital when the patient seeing doctor.

Now, under the supervision of the provincial experts team, the health authorities of Huludao City targeted the infectious field and contracted people. The further clinical isolated monitoring and sterilizations to those people are under going. The concerned traffic and health authorities are cooperating on the investigation of the traffic tools that patient took, and all the relevant tools will be started a process of sterilization.
Together with the municipal health authorities, Dr. Jiang Chao, director-general of PHDLN is steering the provincial experts team to further control of the infection, treatment and limit of the sustained cases, following the Prepared Anti-SARS Working Process.

PHDLN calls on all the health authorities, including medical organizations and anti-infection organizations in Liaoning Province to enhance the work of monitoring, and to strictly perform the System of Infection Report. The fever departments of all Level 2 hospitals in Liaoning should be paid more attention, focusing on the work of earlier finding, reporting, isolating and treating. 24 hours monitoring systems must be satisfied in all supervision organizations. All the counties and districts must set up their own special infection and clinic teams from now on. Facing the challenge, all the Anti-SARS work will be done firmly and courageously. Meanwhile, widespread health education will be advocated to make the public know the knowledge of prevention and self-protection from SARS.

All the important areas such as railway stations, bus stops, ship terminals, airports, hospitals and schools in Liaoning should be specially monitored. The further prevention process and medication preparation must be adequate and ready. The relative provincial-level organizations and the municipal-level organizations will cooperate together to win the war of anti-SARS and to keep the public security. The media should play its important role of stabilizing society and diminishing worries of local people by timely reporting infections, prevention methods and relevant anti-SARS measures by the governmental authorities.