- Gov’t Bolsters Quarantines Due to Swine Flu
- [2009-04-27, 16:48:13]
The government has bolstered emergency quarantine measures against a fast-spreading swine flu outbreak.
In a contingency meeting Monday, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) decided to double their reserves of the antiviral drug Tamiflu from the current two-point-five million doses to five million.
The government has designated six hospitals to prepare a total of 200 beds in isolation wards for any suspected cases of the deadly flu.
The agency says there is a possibility of infection as between seven- and ten-thousand people who entered the nation from Los Angeles and Texas on Friday may have been exposed.
The Incheon Airport National Quarantine Station has placed fever screening cameras to monitor entrants displaying swine flu symptoms.
Symptoms of the illness include a fever of more than nearly 38 degrees Celsius, body aches, coughing, a sore throat, respiratory congestion and, in some cases, vomiting and diarrhea.
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