Schools and hospitals are closing down as fear of flu viruses sweeps through Poland.
 
A school in the southern town of Lipnik closed down after 75 per cent of its students failed to turned up for classes on Wednesday morning. School activities have also been suspended in several other cities.

Hospitals are also closing down certain wards, not allowing any visitors. A hospital at Banacha in Warsaw, where a patient infected with A/H1N1 was admitted, has closed down surgery and internal medicine wards. A hospital in Lublin in the south east has decided to isolate patients at maternity, gynaecology and neurology wards although no swine flu cases have been reported there.

Between 1 September and 15 November 2009 over 107,000 people have contracted flu. There have been 307 cases of swine flu, four of them deadly. (mg)