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Macao reports collective flu outbreak at local school

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-04-27 01:57
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The Health Bureau of Macao Monday said that it has recorded 12 cases of flu infection at a local school.

The patients were all seven-year-old students at the same class of a local school and all of them have received medical treatments at a local hospital, according to the Bureau. The school has been ordered by the Bureau to implement flu control measures.

Meanwhile, there was no A/H1N1 flu reported on Monday and the accumulative number of such cases has reached 3,608 since June 18 last year, according to the Bureau.

Aside from flu cases, some 22 people were inoculated with the A/ H1N1 flu vaccines on Monday alone,which was initiated by the Bureau in late November last year,and a total of 115,887 people have been inoculated so far.

Previously,the SAR government has announced that it has purchased some 700,000 doses of A/H1N1 vaccines,and local medical staff,children,old people and patients with chronic disease were among the group of local people who were firstly inoculated with these vaccines.