APRIL 11, 2003

ITV employee released from Brazilian hospital

The ITV employee who works on F1 broadcasts and who was hospitalized in the days leading up to the Brazilian Grand Prix with suspected Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome was released from the Albert Einstein hospital in Sao Paulo on Thursday.

The ITV employee who works on F1 broadcasts and who was hospitalized in the days leading up to the Brazilian Grand Prix with suspected Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome was released from the Albert Einstein hospital in Sao Paulo on Thursday. Her release was approved by the Sao Paulo Health Secretariat and the World Health Organization. A statement from the hospital named her as Sally Blower.

Blower is now fully recovered but it is still not known (officially) whether she was suffering from SARS until tests are completed.