Seoul plans to scrutinize travelers coming from China's Guangdong province, where at least one patient was recently found to have Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).

The National Institute of Health (NIH) said Saturday that it plans to conduct checks on the nearly three-hundred travelers who come from the province daily at local ports and airports for possible SARS infection and conduct quarantine surveys.

Health officials also said further tests would be run on the same travelers five days after their arrival.

Authorities have been checking travelers from Guangdong Province for possible signs of SARS since end of last year at 13 quarantine offices and conducted close examinations and quarantine surveys on those with high fever.

The international community has been on alert against a possible second outbreak of the deadly virus, which killed more than eight-hundred people and sickened around seven-thousand-900 in 30 countries after it first emerged in China in November 2002.