A/H1N1 flu keeps spreading

On August 2, China’s Ministry of Education issued an urgent call for schools to terminate all summer activities organized for students, unless it is of great necessity, in response to recent cases of the A/H1N1 flu among students in summer camps across Beijing.

Seven students, staying at a summer camp in Beijing, have been diagnosed with the A/H1N1 virus on June 30, resulting in all the other 77 students, who stayed at the same camp, being isolated in the Woodlands Garden hotel for several days.

Apart from the A/H1N1 flu continuing to spread in China, it keeps spreading worldwide.

The World Health Organization (WHO) said the A/H1N1 flu has created the fastest-moving pandemic ever and it is now nearly impossible to count individual cases. Currently national health authorities only report clusters of severe cases or unusual clinical patterns.

The Ministry of Health said people in China, who have had close contact with A/H1N1 flu patients, will no longer be quarantined in specially reserved places, while patients with mild symptoms will receive treatment at home.

Although the vaccine for the A/H1N1 flu has been released and put into mass production, WHO said poor countries will find it difficult to get vaccines for the virus as the world's manufacturing capacity is limited.

Editor: Zhu Chuange |Script: Yang Zi | Video: cctv.com