South Korea has called off international festivals and told hundreds of schoolchildren to stay home as the number of swine flu infections rises, officials said Wednesday.
South Korea has called off international festivals and told hundreds of schoolchildren to stay home as the number of swine flu infections rises, officials said Wednesday.
The south coast city of Yeosu, which will hold a global Expo in 2012, scrapped an international youth festival it planned to host next week.
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"We have to call off the festival for fear that any new case of infection would deal a blow to the image of this city, which will host the 2012 Expo," Lee Don-Ju, a city official in charge of the festival, told AFP.
A world choir contest in the southeastern province of South Gyeongsang was scrapped halfway through on Sunday when more than a dozen Indonesian participants were found to have contracted the A(H1N1) virus.
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The closure of dozens of Hong Kong schools to try to halt the spread of swine flu has kept thousands of children at home, but new technology has meant they can no longer escape their teachers.
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Also scrapped were an international festival of percussion instruments in Sacheon City and an international exhibition of tea bowls in Gimhae City, both in South Gyeongsang province, organisers said.
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Japanese authorities have taken measures to tackle the swine flu menace on a war-footing even as the WHO revealed that it was not according a pandemic status to the infection.
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South Korea's health ministry announced it would spend 193 billion won (152 million dollars) to secure vaccines against swine flu for 13 million people -- more than a quarter of the population.
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