Attact swine flu in BangladeshDifferent English medium schools in the capital have been closed today amid fear of the rising number of swine flu infected cases.
As precaution against the spread of swine flu, authorities of Scholastica School issued a notice today saying the school will remain close until further notice.
City's Sunbeams School was also declared closed for indefinite period today.
The number of swine flu patients crossed a hundred across the country today as four newly infected people with the virus A/H1N1 were found, government officials confirmed.
The government authorities however said the closure of the schools was not necessary.
"It is quite overact and will lead other schools to do so. We will inform it to the Ministry of Education. Because we are yet to go to the situation of closure," said Prof Mahmudur Rahman, director of the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), adding that the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also said that closure of the schools does not work much.
Some 102 patients are infected since June 19 and all of them are treated with the anti viral drug Oseltamivir, they said.
Most of them have already been cured while three are hospitalised. Condition of one of them is critical, said the IEDCR director.
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