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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
Students wash their hands during a class break at the Longfu Primary School in Dongguan, Guangdong province, June 22, 2009. [Asianewsphoto]
The H1N1 flu is preventable, controllable, and treatable, experts said, adding people should avoid crowded places and pay more attention to personal hygiene.

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Meanwhile, all kindergarten, elementary and middle schools in Beijing Monday started checking all students' body temperature at the school gates.

According to the Beijing municipal commission of education, the move is aimed at preventing and controlling the H1N1 flu from spreading further.

"We want to raise the level of prevention," an official with the commission, who refused to be named, said Monday.

There were serpentine queues at the gates of the capital's schools, as students waited to be checked for any symptoms. Some schools even checked the body temperatures of parents dropping off their wards.

The Ministry of Health said 27 more cases of the flu were confirmed on the mainland Monday, taking the total number to 441.

Among the new cases, 11 were from the Guangdong province.

The country's first batch of H1N1 flu vaccines started being produced at a pharmaceutical firm on Monday.

The vaccines are expected to hit the market in September after undergoing safety tests, said Hualan Biological Engineering Inc, which is manufacturing the vaccines.

The company received the seed virus from a World Health Organization (WHO) lab on June 4.