China Roundup on July 2

• Source: Global Times
• [07:50 July 02 2009]
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“Accidental” flu death

A woman with the A (H1N1) flu virus died “accidentally”yesterday in a hospital in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, the Xinhua News Agency reported.

The unnamed woman, 34, was found dead in bathroom at the No. 1 People's Hospital in Xiaoshan district, where she was admitted on June 23.

Over the past week, her body temperature had been normal and she had been recovering well, an official from the city's health department said. Police are investigating.

7 kids have A (H1N1)

Seven children at the Nanhu Zhongyuan Primary School in Beijing have been confirmed as having A (H1N1) flu, the health bureau said yesterday.

The school reported to the Chaoyang District Disease Prevention and Control Center that 12 “feverish” students had been tested and seven were confirmed as having the flu. Teachers, students and parents who had been in close contact with the children were put in medical isolation.

Fifty-seven new A (H1N1) cases were reported on the mainland yesterday, taking the total to 867 since the outbreak began, the Ministry of Health said on its website.

11 killed in heavy rains

Eleven people have been killed since Sunday in Jiangxi and Guizhou provinces as rainstorms swept through the southwest of the country, local authorities said yesterday.

Two people were killed yesterday in the village of Huashan, Jiangxi, when the house they were in collapsed on top of them.

In Guizhou, nine people were killed and another is missing following torrential rains across the province, officials said, without elaborating.

More than 1.5 million people in 31 counties, cities and districts in the mountainous province were hit by floods, mudflows and landslides.

Direct flights to Lhasa

Air China, the nation's biggest carrier, will begin operating the first direct flights from Beijing to Lhasa, capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region, from July 10.

Currently, people traveling between the two places have to transfer through Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province, which neighbors Tibet.

The new flight will take three hours and 50 minutes, two hours less than before, the airline said.