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Mon 04 Apr 2003Global death toll from SARS virus reaches 100The death toll from a respiratory virus causing a global health scare hit 100 today as more deaths from the mystery disease were reported in China, Singapore and Hong Kong.China and Singapore each revealed two more deaths from the virus today while Hong Kong reported one, taking the global death toll to exactly 100 - 53 in China, 23 in Hong Kong, nine in Canada, eight in Singapore, four in Vietnam, two in Thailand and one in Malaysia.