RUSSIA - May 7 - Moscow Starts To Curb Border Crossings With China.The government begins restricting crossings on its border with China as chief sanitary sanitary /san·i·tary/ (san´i-tar?e) promoting or pertaining to health. san·i·tar·y adj. 1. Of or relating to health. 2. inspector Gennady Onishchenko admits a 25-year-old man hospitalised since May 1 in a far-eastern border town of Blagoveshchensk is "probably" suffering from SARS. Although the country still has no confirmed SARS cases, the apparently worsening wors·en tr. & intr.v. wors·ened, wors·en·ing, wors·ens To make or become worse. Noun 1. worsening - process of changing to an inferior state decline in quality, deterioration, declension epidemic epidemic, outbreak of disease that affects a much greater number of people than is usual for the locality or that spreads to regions where it is ordinarily not present. in China can force the government to close the border, Gennady Onishchenko tells Interfax. He is quoted as saying: "We understand all the difficulties of this decision, especially where economics are concerned. God, don't let it happen!" The remark is one of the first signs of alarm among government officials, who have been assuring a worried public that the situation is under control. Border guards in Chita administrative region said they were limiting crossings except to allow Russian and Chinese citizens Chinese citizen can refer to
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