: Penang has stepped up keeping a close eye on the Influenza A outbreak after 18 students from two classes in SRJK Li Hwa in Butterworth contracted the strain in the span of one week.
State health committee chairman Dr Afif Bahardin confirmed the cases in a press conference, saying that the flu outbreak has been endemic in Penang for a while and that his own child had recently contracted the virus. “I do not have the figures on the number of cases that have been detected but the local health authorities are working on it and responding to it.”
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