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Ministry tells kids to avoid crowds during summer vacation
By Wang Jingqiong (China Daily/Asianewsphoto)
Updated: 2009-06-23 11:41

Ministry tells kids to avoid crowds during summer vacation
A teachers of the Longfu Primary School in Dongguan, Guangdong province, checks a student's body temperature on June 21, 2009. Thirty students of the Central Primary School in the city's Shipai township have fallen victim to the H1N1 flu. [Asianewsphoto]
A day after an elementary school in Dongguan, Guangdong province, was closed for seven days after 30 of its students fell victim to the A(H1N1) flu, the Ministry of Education Monday urged students across China to "avoid unnecessary parties and travel during the upcoming summer vacation".

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In a statement on its official website, the ministry also advised students to "stay away from crowds and people who show any symptoms of the flu".

Schools that are planning to hold international academic events during the vacations should stay alert for the pandemic and be prepared for any emergency, the statement said.

Thirty students - all younger than 12 - of the central primary school in the Shipai township were confirmed infected with the H1N1 influenza late last week, following which the school was ordered shut down for a period of seven days starting Monday.

Six students developed symptoms of the flu last Wednesday and 24 others took ill on Thursday and Friday, according to local health authorities.

The infected children are in stable condition since their illness was mild, authorities said.

Nurses at the Shilong Hospital, where 12 of the students are being treated, were quoted as saying by local media that most of the children are 7 to 8 years old and are accompanied by one of their parents in the quarantined wards.

An expert group has been sent to Dongguan to help with the medical treatment, placate patients' families and trace the source of the flu.

Some 60 people who had close contacts with the children are under medical observation in hotels or their own houses.

The students had not left Dongguan for at least 10 days before they caught the flu, prior to which the city reported no cases of the flu, officials said.

Huang Fei, deputy director of the Guangdong provincial health bureau, said the virus was "limited to the school, not an outbreak in the city", and asked residents not to panic.

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