Friday, August 21st, 2009
August 21, 2009, 17:17 San Juan, Aug 21 (Prensa Latina)
The Minister of Health, Lorenzo González, confirmed today that amounts to 30 deaths in Puerto Rico by infection with H1N1 virus.
According to the Minister-third hold the portfolio in the last seven months and expected confirmation by the Senate-confirmed cases generally reach 302 people.
Gonzalez said that is possible within the country there are about two thousand 93 people infected by the disease, although at the moment are unofficial figures.
He said the Department of Health has established jointly with the Education a surveillance system in schools to prevent school attendance of students with flu symptoms.
Only if the identification of a large outbreak of sick people in a school, will assess the possibility of temporarily closing it, he said.
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