The number of cases of “H1N1″ in Japan has exceeded 130 people
The authorities of the southern prefectures have decided to close for the week local schools, kindergartens, and movie theaters. H1N1 virus has already reached and to Chile. And in New York from a dangerous disease, died of head teacher of one local school.
At the entrance to the Japanese parliament – there is a queue. Guided tours for tourists in the country’s highest legislative body has not yet been abolished. However, all visitors are required to rinse the hands of a special disinfecting composition and wear a gauze mask.
The second most populous megalopolis in Japan – Osaka – a situation far worse. That came to class the students dispersed to their homes – this week will be no study . Children contacted personally prefectural governor.
“Senior pupils, students of junior classes, I very much ask you, as governor of Osaka, while the classes in the schools abolished, please do not use this, do not go out walking on the street” – appealed to the students of Osaka Prefecture Governor Toru Hashimoto.
Yet on Friday in Japan has been relatively calm: Four cases of H1N1 virus have just arrived from abroad. That changed in the weekend. In the south-west of the main island of Honshu country, in Osaka and Kobe, people turn to doctors. At this time recorded more than 130 new influenza patients, mostly children. Moreover, students not traveling abroad. That is a dangerous virus began to spread throughout the densely populated island. Literally overnight Japan became the fourth country in the world by number of cases of H1N1. Authorities said about the dangers of the epidemic. The country wore a gauze mask. “As a servant I am obliged to follow the rules. Schools are closed, but work was not canceled. But I believe that everyone should, first of all, cares about their health,” – said a Japanese official.
A dangerous virus, however, was struck not only on the islands rising sun. The first cases recorded in Chile. And in New York registered the first death from the virus H1N1 – has died of a school head teacher. Moreover, the teacher fell ill a week ago, but the school was closed for quarantine until Thursday.
For messages coming from all over the world, closely followed in the headquarters of the World Health Organization.
“Recent figures: 8480 laboratory confirmed cases in 39 countries. Of particular concern is the growing number of cases in the UK, Spain and Japan. We are interested in the mechanism of propagation: it imported cases or transmission of the virus has started among the inhabitants of the region,” – Gregory Hartl, a representative of the World Health Organization .
However, the possibility of raising the threat of a pandemic to the Principal, the sixth, the World Health Organization has not yet commented.
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