Recent cases of group infection have highlighted the rising risk of an A/H1N1 flu pandemic in China.
On Wednesday, central China's Henan Province reported one more confirmed case in a senior high school in Luoyang City.
The condition of the patient remains stable. And the temperature of the 80 other patients has returned normal. Meanwhile, 83 of those in quarantine have showed flu symptoms.
In the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region on Tuesday, the first day of Autumn semester, 150 cases of A/H1-N1 flu were reported in 12 schools. Two were forced to close till Monday.
Hong Kong reported 328 new cases on September 1st. As of Wednesday, its total number of confirmed cases reached 12,456, with 7 deaths.
The same day, the Macao Special Administrative Region reported its first A-H1-N1 flu fatality. The victim was a middle-aged woman in hospital who developed symptoms last month. Her condition deteriorated Wednesday morning and all rescue measures failed. So far, Macao has had 1,045 A/H1N1 cases.
(CCTV September 4, 2009)
