A notice at a train station advises people about atypical pneumonia in Hong Kong on April 29, 2009. Hong Kong, at the forefront of the SARS epidemic in 2003 and already on alert for bird flu, has announced a series of tough measures to combat any threat from the speading swine flu which has been linked to at least seven deaths in Mexico. AFP PHOTO/MIKE CLARKE
HONG KONG — The Hong Kong government activated the serious response level for infectious disease as more pneumonia cases were found in Wuhan, central China’s Hubei province. Speaking on an RTHK radio program, the Secretary for Food and Health Sophia Chan said two more people had fallen ill after returning from Wuhan, raising the total number of cases in Hong Kong to seven.She said the government had decided to step up its monitoring of the situation after a meeting with experts on Friday, RTHK reported.
The serious response level is the medium level in a three-tier response system – alert, serious and emergency – for an outbreak of Novel Infectious Disease of Public Health Significance.
1. HongKongProtests may have saved HongKong for another sars outbreak, as the number of Chinese tourists has reduced significantly. 2. Chinese authority is already arresting people who are spreading news about this illness. Guess none of us know how bad the situation is Wuhan
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