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Swine flu-hit NY shuts schools

WHO reports over 1,000 new global cases in a day

AFP, New York
New York City authorities yesterday closed three schools following a swine flu outbreak as the World Health Organisation reported more than a 1,000 new cases around the globe in 24 hours.
The WHO said there are now 7,520 confirmed cases around the world, just a day after pleading for more time to decide whether to mass produce a vaccine.
New York officials said an assistant
principal of one of the schools that will stay closed through next week was in serious condition in hospital.
There are about 4,500 students at the three schools and city mayor Michael Bloomberg said they were ordered closed because of "an unusually high level of flu like illnesses."
The A(H 1 Nl) outbreak came less than two weeks after New York health authorities pronounced the all clear after other schools were affected by the virus through
students who had visited Mexico.
Bloomberg said swine flu had been identified in four students at one of the schools, all in the Queens district, "as well as in a staff member at the school who is critically ill.
" More than 50 students have been sen t home from the school with flu-like symptoms," he said. At a second school, 241 students reported absent Thursday, and at a third 29 students were documented
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National health authorities earlier said that the number of confirmed cases of swine flu in the United States jumped Thursday from 3,352 to more than4,298.
Sixty five people have died from swine flu, mainly in Mexico, but with three in the United States.
Health authorities around the world have acted to keep the lid on the virus.
In Geneva, acting assistant WHO director-general Keiji Fukuda said a meeting Thursday of experts came to "no big decisions” on whether to begin producing a vaccine.
Proauction of vaccines against the new virus could disrupt the production of seasonal flu vaccines, he added.
Fukuda said more meetings were needed to examine the technical process for manufacturers to ready themselves to go into mass production, which will "require several weeks.”
The WHO announced it would shorten its world assembly, scheduled to start on Monday in Geneva, from nine to four days because of the outbreak
According to WHO figures the number of laboratory-confirmed swine flu cases has increased from 6,497 in 33 countries on Thursday. New countries are being infected nearly everyday.
Malaysia on Friday confirmed its first swine flu case,
Peru also registered its first case while Belgium became the latest European nation to record a case. New Zealand said its number of confirmed cases had risen from seven to nine.
China, meanwhile, stepped up a search for people who had come into contact with the mainland's two confirmed swine flu patients.
Authorities in Beijing and eastern Shandong province were looking for passengers who might have travelled with a 19-year-old student, who on Wednesday became the second confirmed sufferer on the mainland.