Chennai, Apr 28: The Centre would extend all assistance to state governments in their efforts to combat SARS, Union Minister of State for Health, A Raja, said today. Raja was talking to reporters before he left for Maldives via Thiruvananthapuram to participate in a Saarc meeting got up to discuss the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. Members of the public need not be afraid of SARS as it was a curable disease, he said.

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