School officials in eastern China found responsible for a
swine flu outbreak at a provincial high school that led to
109 students being infected will be severely punished, a
local official says.
Classes have been suspended for students at the No. 3 Senior
High School in Xin'an County in Henan province since last
Thursday when the first swine flu patient from the school was
reported, the official Xinhua News Agency said late on
Tuesday night.
An initial investigation showed that school officials failed
to test students' temperatures before the first classes of
the fall term started, as is required at all schools in the
province, Xinhua cited Jiang Duyun, director of the
province's education department, as saying.
China has acted aggressively to detect and contain swine flu
cases after being accused of failing to move quickly enough
to stop the 2003 outbreak of SARS.
The Health Ministry says that 1852 cases of swine flu have
been reported around the country. None has been fatal.
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