Kindergarten closed in Finland as A/H1N1 flu spreads

A kindergarten in Turku, southwest Finland has been closed as half of its children have fallen ill with A/H1N1 flu symptoms, Finnish media reported on Tuesday.

Fifteen of some 30 children in the kindergarten and six personnel have shown the H1N1 flu symptoms. Part of them has been confirmed of infections with the virus Tuesday and two children are being treated in hospital.

Besides that, group infections of the H1N1 flu have appeared in two schools in Turku. The Waino Aaltonen School has detected some 10 infected cases and Turku International School has also found a few people that have contracted the H1N1 virus.

Turku has received 4,500 doses of the H1N1 flu vaccine so far and started inoculation since this week.

The epidemic of the H1N1 flu is spreading in northern Finland. A 25-year-old chronic woman infected with the H1N1 virus died last Saturday, indicating the first fatal case of the H1N1 flu in Finland.　

Source: Xinhua