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> South Korea Health and Welfare Ministry for the Family 3, announced that, in view of Influenza A H1N1 pandemic influenza into the period of social anxiety is increasing, the Government has decided to Influenza A H1N1 flu alert level from the current orange "alert" level, raised to the highest red "serious" level.

> As of November 3, South Korea has had 42 cases of influenza A total of deaths has recently added a day for nearly 9000 cases of influenza cases, due to the recent cold wave hit, the temperature plummeted, the spread of influenza is more rampant.

> The South Korean government said that the current cases of influenza caused the death, severe cases and other cases of mass outbreak of the rapid increase in the short term, the next 4-5 weeks will be a critical period of outbreak control. An effective response to epidemic
> Situation, in addition to influenza alert level raised to the highest level, the South Korean government will also set up a 4, a central inter-ministerial Disaster Safety Countermeasures Headquarters, and to set up appropriate institutions throughout the country.

> This is the South Korea since the 2006 establishment of a national disaster response system for infectious diseases, the highest since the first time "serious" level, is the first to start the central government level disaster response mechanisms. South Korea's disaster response system for infectious diseases is divided into four, namely, concerned with (blue), attention (yellow), alert (orange) and severe (red). South Korea May 1 this year, the influenza alert level raised from yellow and blue, then alpha-stream
> Influenza occurred in some areas after the outbreak of mass in late July raised to orange level.

> The South Korean government said that access to the highest level of red, it will adopt a series of medical countermeasures. For example, the Health Department to ensure that the core of South Korea's 472-bed hospital received nearly 9,000 hospitalized influenza patients;
> The end of this year, the Government will provide 11.6 million copies of antiviral drugs, approximately 20% of the population to meet the nation's drug demand; starting from November 11, South Korea will be over the age of nine students in the implementation of influenza vaccination, and the mobilization of the military medical force, one to two weeks ahead of schedule to complete the original six weeks the students complete the vaccination.

> Park Xiazheng Jiang stressed that although the patient continued to increase, the alarm level increases, but the influenza death rate is low, the domestic sufficient antiviral stockpiles, vaccine production and implementation of the vaccination, the public need not panic, be calm and deal with.