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China quarantines UK school group over swine flu fears

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Pupils and teachers confined to hotel in Beijing after four of their group hospitalised with suspected swine fluA group of British schoolchildren and their teachers have been quarantined in China after four of the students were hospitalised with suspected swine flu, the Foreign Office said today.The group of 52, who were travelling as part of a wider group of 278, were confined to their hotel in Beijing as part of Chinese efforts to contain the spread of the virus.
They are due to return home on 27 July.The move comes after another British student was quarantined in China for two days this week after screening on arrival showed him to have a temperature.
No illness developed.China has reported 1,537 cases of swine flu, with no fatalities to date.
Some of its measures have been criticised as excessive as Beijing tries to recover some credibility after its handling of the Sars outbreak in 2003.Italy's health ministry has advised it citizens to take "extra precautions" when travelling to the UK due to the sharp increase in swine flu cases in Britain.Italy has 258 confirmed cases of swine flu and no deaths.
The UK has registered 66% of all swine flu cases in the EU - an estimated 55,000 - cases and has had 29 deaths.The ministry stopped short of discouraging travel to the UK, saying "international health organisations are not discouraging foreign travel even to areas hardest hit by the infection".
However, it outlined a series of measures to reduce the risk of contracting swine flu, such as avoiding crowds and regularly washing hands.The outbreak has coincided with a slump in Britain's tourism trade.
Elliot Frisby, a spokesman for Visit Britain, the national tourism agency, said the economy was the main reason that people were not visiting the UK..

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