CANCUN, Mexico, July 3 (Xinhua) -- China is well
prepared to contain a cluster outbreak of A/H1N1 influenza, Chinese Health
Minister Chen Zhu said Friday.
Chen was here for the first global meeting on the
deadly new A/H1N1 flu virus, which ended Friday.
Chinese Health Minister Chen Zhu (3rd L)
speaks during an international meeting of the World Health Organization
(WHO) in Cancun, Mexico, July 2, 2009. Mexico started hosting a two-day
international meeting on Influenza A/H1N1 on Thursday.(Xinhua
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Regarding
a recent mass infection of the virus at a Beijing primary school, Chen told
Xinhua that the Chinese government had foreseen such kind of flu outbreak in
either communities or schools since the country had already registered cases
infected both overseas and at home.
Noting that teenagers and young adults are more
likely to get infected by the virus, Chen said that in many countries, the
earliest detections of clustering flu cases were at schools.
He added that school summer holidays started as of
this month in China, which will help reduce the possibility of mass infection of
those most-likely-infected people.
On Friday in Beijing, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao
presided over an executive meeting of the State Council, China's cabinet, which
came up with seven measures to cope with the epidemic for future prevention
efforts.
Top of the measures is the intensified prevention and
control of the disease in public places such as schools and hospitals, which
reflects that the Chinese government has adjusted its response to accommodate to
new circumstances, Chen said.
The Chinese health minister voiced his confidence to
tackle a possible next wave of flu outbreak in autumn and winter, adding China
would take preventive measures in advance.
The Cancun meeting brought together delegates and
health ministers from 43 nations to share experiences in fighting the disease,
evaluate the current situation, exchange information and discuss measures to
confront the pandemic.
The flu has killed 382 people and infected 89,921
across the globe, according to the latest WHO data.
CANCUN, Mexico, July 3 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Health Minister ChenZhu on Friday
called on the World Health Organization to involve emerging nations more
in order to take better and more transparent decisions.
"I suggest that decision making mechanisms need to be
improved by inviting experts from emerging market nations to participate in the
emergency committee, to improve decision making it and make it more
transparent," Full story
BEIJING, July 3
(Xinhua) -- Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Friday called for continued vigilance
against the global pandemic of the A/H1N1 influenza and urged positive and
scientific measures to cope with it.
Wen made the comment at the executive meeting of the State
Council, China's Cabinet.Full story
CANCUN,
Mexico, July 3 (Xinhua) -- The world is in a better position thanks to Mexico's
hard-won knowledge in combating the A/H1N1 flu virus, Mirta Roses, director of
the Pan-American Health Organization said Friday.
In a closing speech at the first World Health Organization
(WHO)-backed global meeting on the topic, Roses said "many nations have shown us
their errors and uncertainty but we leave here with a great deal of
knowledge."Full story
CANCUN, Mexico, July 2 (Xinhua) -- Mexico started hosting a two-day international meeting on Influenza A/H1N1 on Thursday, at which the director of the World Health Organization (WHO) gave a speech on information sharing and lessons learned from the deadly outbreak of the new pandemic.
"I hope this meeting helps us take major steps forward towards building new collective defenses against a menace that affects us all," Margaret Chan, the WHO director-general, told the opening session in Cancun, a beach resort town in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. Full story
