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SARS Information Credible: Survey

Nearly 80 percent of the Beijingers say the information provided by municipal authorities on the SARS outbreak is credible, a series of surveys conducted by a Beijing-based social psychology institute reveals.


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Nearly 80 percent of the Beijingers say the information provided by municipal authorities on the SARS outbreak is credible, a series of surveys conducted by a Beijing-based social psychology institute reveals.

The figure - 78 percent - is a huge jump from the 57 percent who believed what the capital's authorities had to say about the outbreak about a month ago, reported Thursday's China Daily.

The three surveys were carried out once each week since April 25 by the Social Psychology Institute of Renmin University of China.

As the number of SARS cases is apparently tailing off in the Chinese capital, many Beijingers seemed to have lowered their guard, the institute's latest survey showed.

The massive increase in public confidence towards the municipal government on SARS is a testimony to the authority's honest position on the epidemic, and its effective measures to prevent and control the flu-like infection, according to the English-language newspaper.


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