Number of confirmed A/H1N1 flu cases rises to 80 on Chinese mainland
June 8, 2009 by fluoutbreak · Leave a Comment
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BEIJING, June 7 (Xinhua) — Eight more A/H1N1 flu cases were confirmed on the Chinese mainland Sunday, bringing the total number to 80.
Three new cases were reported in Beijing, including a 12-year-old Chinese boy and two foreigners, the Beijing Municipal Health Bureau said.
The boy studied in the United States and returned to China from Orlando Saturday, the bureau said.
The two foreigners were from the disease control authorities of a southeast Asian nation, and they had been attending a training class in Beijing, the bureau said.
Meanwhile, two new cases were reported in Shanghai, including a47-year-old Chinese woman and a 24-year-old French man, said Chen Qiwei, a spokesman for the Shanghai municipal government.
In the southeastern city of Fuzhou, Fujian Province, a two-year-old Chinese girl was confirmed to be infected with A/H1N1flu Sunday, the Fujian Provincial Health Department reported.
Also Sunday, two more A/H1N1 patients infected through local transmission were confirmed in the southwestern city of Chengdu, Sichuan Province, bring the total number of such cases to six on the Chinese mainland.
Argentina: Confirmed A/H1N1 flu cases rise to 163 in Argentina
June 6, 2009 by fluoutbreak · Leave a Comment
2009-06-06 05:33:00
BUENOS AIRES, June 5 (Xinhua) — Argentine Health Ministry said on Friday that to the moment the confirmed cases of the A/H1N1 flu in the country was 163, most of whom are children and teenagers.
Most of the patients are students of elementary and middle schools from Buenos Aires, capital of the country and from Gran Buenos Aires. The Malbran Institute has 830 pending samples to be analyzed.
In the last 24 hours there were 16 new cases and the Emergency Committee has been discussing the possibility of suspending school activities.
Argentine Education Minister Juan Carlos Tedesco and Interior Minister Florencia Randazzo were against suspending school activities.
Tedesco said that “it is not a generalized situation” in the country to take a measure like that because “to the moment, there is a strong concentration of confirmed cases in the city of BuenosAires and the suburbs, mainly at the Gran Buenos Aires north zone.”
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