Argentina: Swine Flu’s Spread Leads to School Closings

Authorities in Buenos Aires and the surrounding province announced Tuesday that they were canceling classes for hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren to try to contain a fast-spreading outbreak of swine flu that has killed at least 35 people locally. The two governments announced that they would start the school winter break on Monday, two weeks early, and that it would last four weeks. “I am asking kids to stay home and to not go to places with a large concentration of people to avoid the infection,” the mayor of Buenos Aires, Mauricio Macri, said during a televised news conference after meeting with a crisis committee of doctors, health officials and experts. The authorities did not, however, close bars, restaurants, theaters or shopping malls.

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