Vietnam: May close all schools in HCM City

23/07/2009

Previous events flu spread rapidly in schools, this afternoon, the GD & ĐT HCMC emergency steering boarding schools suspend the histology.

Mr. Huynh Cong Minh, Director of the Department require schools and boarding for the students during the summer holiday, to prevent the flu infection cases from outside spread to students, teachers in schools. If the students are boarders at this time, they must quickly pay the children of local to focus on the plan.

Head education sector also proposed all across the city to organize the total sanitation classrooms, boarding area, dining ... safety and hygiene before accepting students.

District office of GD & ĐT city - Mr. Bui Khac Huy said, if the flu spreads in school events trend of the poor may have to close all schools, students in isolation to safe.
The 22 / 7, Department of GD & ĐT HCMC has sent documents to the foreign language, information technology, fostering the cultural city proposed tracking measures to prevent influenza. Specifically, directors of note are the basis of the teachers of the foreign of Vietnam in the house 3 days prior to the center to ensure safety for all students, teachers.

Earlier, on 21 / 7, Vice President of the Permanent People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City - Nguyen Thanh Tai also requires agencies, in addition to monitoring at border gate, should be monitored at the community. The note his treatment of the disease severity, to prevent death but not to focus on hospitals that refinement distribution for hospital districts. "Focus area for the right school for the city to have 1 million students and faculty about the new school year and over 300,000 more students. Before the school year instruction must survey all schools, conducting hygiene, the same ", the vice president stated.

Besides, he also recommended The attention to the accommodation areas, the export processing - the industrial workers crowded living focus for advocacy, for A/H1N1 flu.

Until this afternoon, was wishy-washy HPAI H1N1 outbreak in the 2 schools in HCMC. Flu at first, high school private Ngo The Times, District 9, the number of students identified positive continuous increase in the days and now is over 70. In the 3 schools with private Nguyen, only yesterday and today, 32 students on fever, 2 of the identified positive. Of them have formed "the hospital", to deal with the ability to spread to the community.