VIVAnews - The government of Vietnam has to close every school in Hanoi on Friday, August 7, to avoid more people from being infected by Influenza A/H1N1.
Currently, the swine flu has infected at least 1,000 Vietnamese. In fact, one person was reported dead in the country.
VNexpress web page stated that three schools in Hanoi accounted that three of their students were H1N1 positive. The situation triggered the government to shut down every school.
The new school year is scheduled to begin as planned on August 17, it said, but some schools had started early and summer classes were in session at many others.
In its latest update last week, the World Health Organisation reported 162,230 confirmed cases and 1,154 deaths from the virus. Flu experts said this probably reflected only a fraction of the true count as not every patient can be diagnosed with a lab test.
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Translated by: Bonardo Maulana Wahono
