Jump to full article: AP, 2003-05-02
Intro: The Philippine president said Thursday she would try to calm SARS worries by
visiting a northern agricultural village recently quarantined because of the illness.
Unfounded SARS fears could be disastrous to the economy, said President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
"We should not overreact," Arroyo told hundreds of workers in a Labour Day speech. "We should not panic
because panic could do worse to our economy than SARS itself."
The presidential palace announced Arroyo would visit the farming community in Alcala town in the rice- and
tobacco-producing province of Pangasinan
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