The 68 schools in Kohkiloyeh and Buyerahmad province, southwest of Iran, were closed for three days due to a fear of the H1N1 outbreak. It is reported that over 15 percent of school students in the province have caught flu.
“The temporary closure of schools is an attempt to limit the spread of the H1N1 virus among students in the province,” Ali Esmaeli, Zanjan Province Education Department’s Public Relations officer, told the Mehr News Agency.
Esmaeli added that “So far five school children have been diagnosed with H1N1 virus.”
He said 11,000 school students of the province did not attend classrooms on Monday.
Also Reza Sa’eini, a health official from Zanjan Province, told the MNA that so far 18 people have been confirmed with the H1N1 virus in the province. He put the number of suspicious cases of H1N1 viral infection at 200 in the province.
Sa’eini said there has been no report of H1N1 death in Zanjan Province, 330 km northwest of Tehran.
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