Published: Friday July 3, 2009 MYT 3:04:00 PM
A(H1N1): Don’t get frisky, Rainforest fans told
By JACK WONG
KUCHING: Don’t hug or get too close to each other -- the advice has gone out to the thousands of fans expected at next week’s Rainforest World Music Festival at the Sarawak Cultural Village near here.
Deputy Chief Minister Tan Sri Dr George Chan Hong Nam said this was important to minimise the risks of Influenza A(H1N1).
“The flu is very contagious although the virus is quite mild,” he told reporters at his office at Wisma Bapa Malaysia here Friday.
Dr Chan said that a 22-year-old female clerk who returned from Bangkok on Tuesday was the seventh person in the state to have contracted A(H1N1). She was admitted to the Sarawak General Hospital isolation ward on Friday.
He said the woman’s brother who was travelling with her tested negative for the virus.
Dr Chan said the three-day music festival would go on as planned next Friday. It is expected to attract some 20,000 concert goers. More than half of the 22,000 fans at last year’s event were non-Sarawakians.
Dr Chan said all concert-goers would be given face masks and would be required to wash their hands before entering the festival venue.
He said various precautionary measures would be taken to miminise as much as possible the risk of any spread of the A(H1N1) virus.
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