from today's Nikkei

2009年04月29日 20時54分02秒 | 新聞記事から
新型インフルエンザ発生を宣言 WHO「警戒水準4」に上げ 政府が対策本部 水際阻止を徹底 メキシコ死者149人 韓国でも1人「感染濃厚」

The World Health Organization hold its emergency meeting on the 27th evening(JST:on the 28th morning) on the swine flu now spreading in many countries in the world and declared that the flue is a new strain of the flue having a possibility of spreading from human to human on a community basis.Following the declaration,the WHO also raised the alert level from Phase 3 to Phase 4.

In Japan, the government set up an emergency headquarters chaired by Prime Minister Taro Aso in order to quickly take necessary measures at home and held its first meeting on the Tuesday afternoon. And they decided to implement the measures to prevent the swine flu virus (from) entering the country.

In Mexico, where the number pf people suffering the flu is the largest among countries, the number of the death toll from the flu reached 149. In South Korea a woman who have traveled in the southern part of Mexico from the middle to the end of April was diagnosed as being highly estimated to be infected with the swine flu.

In these circumstances,we have to closely watch the situation for a while.

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