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The Chinese Government's Health Protection Center (CHP) in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) has urged the government to close its doors for a week from Saturday for a week starting on Saturday.
At a press conference on Friday, Dr. Wong Ka-hing, Cogeneration Controller, said the decision was made after an inter-ministerial meeting convened by the Food and Drugs Bureau. health of the HKSAR government to cope with the flu spike in winter.
"We have found that the current outbreak of flu-like illnesses in kindergartens and early childhood centers is at a very high level, according to the mobile epidemic method that we are trying to adopt." year, "he said.
"At the meeting, we felt that it was appropriate to have this enhanced measure to try to interrupt the transmission that had occurred in a given school."
Wong noted that the hospitalization rate of children under five had remained high since the second week of the winter influenza season in Hong Kong and that the level of influenza activity should remain high in the coming weeks. .
The government will monitor and review the situation to decide whether the measure will have to be maintained until the start of the Chinese New Year holiday or beyond, and whether it needs further improvement, he said.
CHP called on parents to vaccinate their children as soon as possible against seasonal flu and is committed to encouraging more childcare and nursery schools to participate in the center's vaccination program.
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