South Korea - Media reports: Kindergartens and schools temporary closings now number 544 - June 3, 2015

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Homers game kindergarten nearby hospital killed seven suspected Closed

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[Business Wire] = Suwon yijongil press = Middle Respiratory Syndrome (Homers) 50 women had contact with the patient first drew breath in a hospital and decided the game area near the hospital where the kindergarten 7 Closed. 1 According to the DOE, Gyeonggi-Mer Patients Suspected A (58 ? F), Mr. B hospitals around the province who died seven private kindergartens were to Closed 2-5. day death of former PM Mr. A became a local private kindergarten education agency support The inquiry led calls from parents Educational Support Agency sent a memorandum to the corresponding Homers private kindergarten, kindergarten 7 Closed place for a period of four days decided in consultation. Kindergarten has been operating for seven full day period Closed for dual-income household children decided to accommodate children who wish to normal deungwon. Board of Education official said "Closed Whether the principal authority", "public kindergarten is not yet Closed movement," he said. Meanwhile, Mr. A day at 6:00 sikke B treatment hospital died stream is interrupted. A Mr. dwaeteotda transported to the hospital the same month, 25 days B is C (68) of Homers's first patient was admitted to Tokyo hospital was hospitalized D 15 to 17 last month.

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It appears an elementary school is also closed. Case #25 had some kind of contact with the private kindergarten and this elementary school.

Homers first casualties care hospital premises closed elementary school where 22 Review (comprehensive)

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Local elementary school where two national decisions ... private kindergartens closed the first seven also closed
(Suwon AP) reporter = twenty weeks Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (Homers) first-related deaths are 22 elementary schools nearby hospital premises where treatment went into closed batdeon Review for infection prevention.
According to the Gyeonggi-do Office of Education Homers two days of contact with the first patient S (58 ? F) hospital premises nearby elementary school principal, Mr. died Council held a meeting yesterday morning, "When we held the school by the School Council Parent consent 5 The day closed up, "he agreed.
Closed when an emergency occurs, this dire situation based on the Decree of Elementary and Secondary Education Act, saying that the principal determines it to a temporary suspension of business, education authorities if deemed urgent reason normal classes is impossible to make a closing command to the principal closings and other jochida.

Classes are no closed period, but staff must work in progress, but closed virtually means that the school is closed.
All those local elementary schools, 22 are currently in place are discussing whether the school committee to convene closed, replaced during operation whether closed class.
A school ahead of the region decided to shut down the first time in the country.
It was followed by another elementary school to shut down 3 to 5 am the day after shortening classes.
The school day for parents AM "and closed in Homers relevant precaution" was sent to the descriptions of characters.
A Elementary School official "death toll was confirmed by the closed opening of the extraordinary session, as occurs today" "Recently, there were many complaints of parents mixed with concern," he said.
It led to a partial closing of the private kindergartens within the same area.
The area up to seven private kindergartens are coming 5 days regular curriculum decided not to. However, for dual-career couples, including full day (after school class) it is guided so that normal operations and are difficult to protect aboriginal home can deungwon.
Earlier in the day deungwon current rate of 7 kindergartens were 1.79% (18.31% Full day).

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Markets | Tue Jun 2, 2015 12:08am EDT

UPDATE 3-S.Korea reports first two deaths from MERS respiratory illness
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Seven kindergartens and one elementary school near the hospital in Gyeonggi province which reported the first death were shut for the week.

"So far it's been inside hospitals that infections occurred but as soon as it gets out, it'll probably spread rapidly," said Lee Yu-jeong, a 41-year-old mother of three children.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/02/health-mers-southkorea-idUSL3N0YN54N20150602

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More than 50 schools and kindergartens near a hospital near Seoul where the 58-year-old patient who died was treated have canceled classes from Wednesday to Friday to let children stay home, according to the education agency in Gyeonggi province, which surrounds Seoul. The measure was taken after many parents asked the schools to take action, agency officials said.

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Posted : 2015-06-02 17:10
Updated : 2015-06-02 19:14

Scare causes school, kindergarten to close
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A primary school in Gyeonggi Province, close to the hospital where the first death occurred, closed its doors Tuesday due to concerns shown by parents.

"We decided to close the school for four days as parents are worried about the disease," a school official said.

Another 35 elementary schools decided to shut down from Wednesday to Friday. Eleven private kindergartens are also closed through Friday.

Education authorities in Gyeonggi Province advised schools to cancel outdoor activities and excursions to prevent students contracting the MERS virus.

Some in Seoul followed suit, canceling trips and outdoor activities.

Calls are mounting for the health authorities to disclose the names and exact locations of the medical facilities where patients are being treated and people being isolated, as the public are playing guessing games and false rumors are spreading.

However, the government refused to do so...
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Markets | Tue Jun 2, 2015 7:19am EDT

UPDATE 4-S.Korea reports first two deaths from MERS respiratory illness
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Fifty-eight schools and kindergartens in Gyeonggi province, home to the hospital where the first death occurred, were shut for the week, according to a provincial official.
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(LEAD) Schools cancel classes over MERS woes

2015/06/02 17:34

SUWON, South Korea, June 2 (Yonhap) -- ...

The Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education said more than 40 private kindergartens and elementary schools have posted notifications of their decision to cancel classes until the end of this week.

Earlier on Tuesday, officials said 22 elementary schools in the province were at risk of being exposed to the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus. They are located near the hospital in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province, where a 58-year-old woman died on Monday before she was confirmed to have contracted the disease, the first death from the illness in South Korea.
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Four elementary schools in North Chuncheong Province have also decided to cancel classes until Friday after a teacher at one of the schools reportedly came in close contact with a MERS patient.

The teacher is known to have visited his father on May 23 before the father was diagnosed with MERS on Tuesday.

The teacher also interacted with instructors working at three other elementary schools last weekend. The schools are among the four that are closed for the week.
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Is South Korea's MERS outbreak sign the virus is taking off? Not necessarily
MERS

Helen Branswell, The Canadian Press
Published Tuesday, June 2, 2015 7:29AM EDT

TORONTO -- A rapidly expanding MERS outbreak in South Korea is raising concerns the virus may be on the verge of a SARS-like global spread. But there is currently no evidence to support those fears, some experts say.

In fact, they argue that what is different here is that cases are being reported thoroughly and promptly by Korean authorities and in the local media. That has not been the pattern with outbreaks in Middle Eastern countries where the virus originates.

"I think we're all aware of the fact that we're seeing this in much more real time than we have those (outbreaks) on the Arabian Peninsula," said Michael Osterholm, who heads the University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Diseases Research and Policy and who helped investigate MERS outbreaks in the United Arab Emirates.

"That could add to the sense that there's something different happening here."...

... all this has been observed before, said Peter Ben Embarek, the World Health Organization's point person for MERS.

"We have seen many of these similar hospital outbreaks in KSA (the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) and the Emirates," he said. Those two countries have recorded the vast majority of the nearly 1,200 confirmed MERS cases to date.

In fact, Ben Embarek noted there is currently a hospital outbreak in the Saudi city of Hufof, and the case count there is steadily rising. "In a sense it's not very different."

Ben Embarek noted South Korea has agreed to share viruses from its outbreak so that scientists can look to see if genetic changes might be responsible for the virus's behaviour....

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(2nd LD) Schools cancel classes over MERS woes

2015/06/02 23:02

SEOUL, June 2 (Yonhap) -- Nearly 150 kindergartens and schools in South Korea are either closed or plan to shut down temporarily to prevent the spread of a deadly virus that has killed two South Koreans, officials said Tuesday.

Most of the kindergartens and schools are located in Gyeonggi Province...

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[Business Wire] yihyewon three kinds = O = Homers best reporter (MERS ? Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) among 153 Schools Nationwide confirmed that increasing self, went to the University closed. This is the largest since 2009 swine flu incident occurred. 02, Gyeonggi-do Office of Education and the Ministry of Education, according to Chungbuk and Gyeonggi Province Office of Education has decided to shut down only from 142 schools, 10 schools, Chungbuk, Chungnam 1 schools, including 153 schools have decided to shut down. If schools are closed most of Gyeonggi Province from Homers patients died within the hospital B, Gyeonggi around 1 Elementary School where, seven private kindergartens is five, following a closed (2-5 days) Yu-day local elementary, middle and high ? 133 places a special school from 3 days to 5 days to enter a temporary suspension of business. Gyeonggi Province within the closed schools are public and private kindergartens where 57 per schoolmates, where 74 elementary school, middle eight, 10th place, one place where special schools, 1 University The total of 142 places, including schools. In addition, Chungbuk areas with confirmed cases of contact 'suspected' is around nine out of primary school and kindergarten, including one where 10 places are decided to shut down. 5 of the decision to shut down six of Cheongju Elementary School place 3 to 5 in the closed preventive dimension, and the other one will be closed temporarily place three days a week. Chungju and gel in one place each elementary school and one kindergarten where the same period of 3 days each achieved the sake closed. In addition to the one decided kindergartens closed in Chungnam. School officials decided to shut down their "Homers parents and spreading complaints about phone The larch has decided to shut down, "said" this is Homers patients died in the hospital known around the parents grew anxious, "it has attracted high wear. The Ministry of Education has configured a 30-day month, students infectious diseases task force ', health authorities from the past day being under the supervision of the operation. In addition, each city and even the Department of Education has also configure the Homers and infectious diseases task force advised to refrain from group activities in schools. Ministry official said, "the one place today and tomorrow, going to school closings for both closed state up to five days for closings said keep it. " On the other hand, suspension of business is based on the Decree of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act to emergency disaster, or other dire circumstances can be implemented when the principal has occurred. If you decide to shut down normal work staff and students do not attend school.

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S. Korea says 209 schools cancel classes over MERS

Published : 2015-06-03 10:15
Updated : 2015-06-03 10:15

More than 200 schools in South Korea have canceled classes to prevent the spread of a deadly virus that has killed two South Koreans, the top education official said Wednesday.

Students and teachers have been told not to show up at 209 schools...

http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20150603000335

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Solo Gyeonggi-85 school standing student 1400 people, including a cold fever ... "absentee after another."

Elementary and junior high school students 10 people, deep hyperthermia symptoms can not attend school for days

Education, impact on the unexpected result ... "I no longer expanding film"

(Suwon ACN 1) yiyunhui reporter | 03.06.2015 09:22:33 songgo

A local student of the game, only 1,400 gotta investigate cold symptoms such as high fever that education authorities're in shock. Some students were found to not come to school for days the heat intense. 03, one of the game A local school board According to the students who have symptoms such as fever, cold, cough from one school to target the whole community survey showed that up to 85 schools and 1413 people. Education is the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (Homers) the day after the first deaths occurred 2 this work was carried out to investigate. The Department of Education was in an unexpected impact on the result. The whole thing looks serious students have to worry about experiencing the symptoms of absentee due to a fever, but not stand, because increasingly likely increase. Current B Elementary School Only 10 people of the student and the school does not improve, this does not appear fever, 7th place in 3-4 students were identified as the home care seems that the same symptoms. C Two of elementary school students self-diagnosis Homers he went ohgido sympathy to the family from the hospital. Department of Education official said, "I am not at all the result of panic me," said "First ordered more students to thoroughly map the hygiene to prevent the expansion," he said. Meanwhile, Gyeonggi Province The first deaths went to a temporary shut down more than 150 schools in five regions, including the game occurred on Mars. So far, the school has closed ball into the area 62 private kindergartens, special schools one place, where 78 elementary, middle eight, high school All in one place, including 150 schools were identified. close to half of the deaths reportedly occurred in the past day the first Martian region. LYH @

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Homers been added to the patient 5 people 30 people ... hwangwooyeo "209 schools nationwide shut down or closed."

2015-06-03 10:28

Middle East Respiratory Syndrome ( mers ? Homers) is an elementary school classroom into a temporary closings of Gyeonggi Province is empty, two days as a precaution. Jeongjiyun journalists

'Homers patients adding 5 people 30 people gotta' hwangwooyeo social Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education three days "Homers for the prevention of infection by the current 209 schools are closed or closed state action," he said balhyeotdago told the AP. hwangwooyeo Minister Seoul and Gyeonggi Homers for the day-proliferation measures laid, Chungnam, was convened to discuss urgent measures related to Chungbuk National Superintendent of the government building in Seoul. Hwang Deputy Prime Minister, "because collective life yirwoji school students should prevent infection as much as thoroughly" "The finish is actively investigating the epidemiology prevention precautions are required until a secure and safe," he said. Following "The school should be significantly strengthened the enforcement of this disinfectant than society in general," he added. yijaejeong game superintendent, "Gyeonggi Province has shut down the 183 school song, decide closed to protect the students and that there is a particular risk in many areas," said He said. He said, "Gyeonggi Province under the judgment that the most important preventive measures are strictly precautionary level for each school pursuant to the 'border'," he said. Meanwhile, three days Homers now been added to the patient increased to a total of five people to 30 people. "Homers patients adding 5 people 30 people gotta 'Homers patients adding 5 people 30 people gotta' Homers patients adding 5 people 30 people gotta 'Homers patients adding 5 people 30 people gotta' Homers patients 5 people Add 30 people gotta

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Gyeonggi-Mer throw kindergarten, where 183 schools closed, yijaejeong Superintendent "in Pyeongtaek full closed 必"

Yunjeonghun reporter(Yunright@ajunews.com)| Registration: 2015-06-03 11:30| Modified: 2015-06-03 11:30

Very economic yunjeonghun reporter = Middle Respiratory Syndrome (Homers) infection grows, anxiety totaled 183 in place of the high school, kindergarten, elementary school closed the game entered the area. In yijaejeong superintendent said while the overall need Pyeongtaek area school closings. 03, according to the Gyeonggi-do Office of Education 9:30 a.m. standard kindergarten (58 places), elementary school (105 places), High (2 places), special schools (3 places) The combined total of 183 schools were closed. The figures corresponding to 4% of the total Gyeonggi School (4476 locations). Gyeonggi Province surrounding elementary schools around the hospital premises and deaths that occurred two days has begun its own closed. Closed school closings and goes in accordance with the instructions of the education authorities, this measure is a principal measure to determine a temporary shut down when an emergency occurs dire situation based on the Decree of Elementary and Secondary Education Act. yijaejeong pot of 3 am, Gyeonggi Superintendent OhmyNews TV appearances by the cast 'patjjang of jangyunseon' "Today, if possible (Minister of Education and Superintendent attempt an emergency Homers FEMA) will vary depending on the discussion results, and I wondered when shut down command in Pyeongtaek area the whole school," said "The Ministry of is the fear of the schools do not understand, "he said. Meanwhile, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Homers suspected corresponding manner as washing hands thoroughly after going out ▲ ▲ cough, runny nose, fever ▲ wear a mask if you have fever and respiratory illness ▲ refrain from contact with the elderly, the chronically ill ▲ refrain Middle East tour to visit within two weeks after the fever cough appears ▲ authorities confirmed cases reported to the health and quarantine If an observer blossomed into contact with suspicious symptoms, health authorities report ▲ The mask worn during hospital visits, etc. It proposed a method.

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(5th LD) 544 schools cancel classes over MERS

2015/06/03 19:21

SEOUL, June 3 (Yonhap) -- ...

As of 5 p.m., students and teachers have been told not to show up at 544 schools...

The vast majority of the total, or 439 schools, are in Gyeonggi Province, where the first case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome in South Korea was reported.

The rest are in North and South Chungcheong Provinces, close to Gyeonggi Province, which surrounds Seoul.

In Seoul, six elementary schools and a middle school have decided to shut down until Friday at the request of parents. Still, none of the students or teachers at these schools have come into contact with a MERS patient.

Earlier Wednesday, Education Minister Hwang Woo-yea called for a thorough effort to prevent the disease from spreading to schools, which he said requires extra vigilance.
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The Ministry of Education fell short of forcing all schools to close since health authorities have not yet upgraded the MERS alert level from "watch" to "warning."
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