Jump in swine flu cases

More than 90 cases of swine flu have been confirmed in Japan although none of the A/H1N1 cases are critical. There has been a rapid rise in the figures and the first case in someone who had not been abroad - a 17-year-old student in Kobe - was reported only on Saturday. Nearly all those affected are students in the Hyogo and Osaka prefectures in western Japan. Just four cases had been confirmed in Japan as of Friday all of those were people who had returned from Canada. They were kept in quarantine and all international passengers have been scanned for raised temperatures as they arrive in the country. The government has shut down schools and cancelled public events in cities where the flu has been reported.