Chinese education ministry: no summer camp for students for A/H1N1 prevention
08:20, 4 August 2009
BEIJING. August 4. KAZINFORM China's Ministry of Education has required summer camps and other student activities to be cancelled this summer holiday to prevent further spread of the A/H1N1 flu, Tuesday's China Daily reported; Kazinform refers to China View.
Student activities, including summer camps, should be held "only when necessary," ministry officials were quoted as saying.
In areas with multiple cases of the virus, the local education authority will downgrade the amount and scale of such activities, the ministry's notice said.
In major A/H1N1 flu areas, such activities should be cancelled, it said.The released notice follows outbreaks among more than 120 students, parents and teachers at several summer camps in Beijing and Guangzhou; Kazinform cites China View.
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