Tokyo, April 27 .- The Government of Japan announced today that it will concentrate its efforts on finding a vaccine able to fight the flu and swine equipment specialists inspect the passengers from Mexico before landing the aircraft.
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The Executive decided on a Japanese crisis meeting held today to reinforce measures to prevent the entry of swine influenza in Japan, after this Thursday will trigger the alarm in Mexico, the agency Kyodo reported.
Although at this stage there has been no case in Japan of influenza infection, the Japanese Ministry of Health, Yoichi Masuzoe, said today that it will be given priority over the coming months to develop a vaccine to combat the virus.
Among the measures taken by Japan to send doctors out to the international airport in Narita-Tokyo to inspect and take the temperature of passengers arriving from Mexico before landing the plane, as well as various types of immigration checks.
A spokesman for the Mexican airline that operates flights between Japan and Mexico, Aeromexico, told Efe that still has no plans to cancel any trip, but they were received in the low group reservations.
For his part, one of the largest travel agencies in Japan, JTB, decided yesterday to cancel tours between April 27 and June 30, which had been targeted 400 customers, a spokesperson told Efe the company .
Some large companies in Japan, to export, have canceled their trips to Mexico as a precaution, after this weekend the government has asked its citizens to reconsider their trips to Mexico.
Sources of Hitachi, the giant Japanese electronics and machinery that has ten mills in Mexico, said today that Efe suspended travel to this country and ordered to return the families of Japanese employees who reside there.
The Government of Mexico amounted to 103 yesterday in the number of suspicious deaths so far have been caused by the outbreak of swine flu that affects the country, for which 1614 people were hospitalized.
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The Executive decided on a Japanese crisis meeting held today to reinforce measures to prevent the entry of swine influenza in Japan, after this Thursday will trigger the alarm in Mexico, the agency Kyodo reported.
Although at this stage there has been no case in Japan of influenza infection, the Japanese Ministry of Health, Yoichi Masuzoe, said today that it will be given priority over the coming months to develop a vaccine to combat the virus.
Among the measures taken by Japan to send doctors out to the international airport in Narita-Tokyo to inspect and take the temperature of passengers arriving from Mexico before landing the plane, as well as various types of immigration checks.
A spokesman for the Mexican airline that operates flights between Japan and Mexico, Aeromexico, told Efe that still has no plans to cancel any trip, but they were received in the low group reservations.
For his part, one of the largest travel agencies in Japan, JTB, decided yesterday to cancel tours between April 27 and June 30, which had been targeted 400 customers, a spokesperson told Efe the company .
Some large companies in Japan, to export, have canceled their trips to Mexico as a precaution, after this weekend the government has asked its citizens to reconsider their trips to Mexico.
Sources of Hitachi, the giant Japanese electronics and machinery that has ten mills in Mexico, said today that Efe suspended travel to this country and ordered to return the families of Japanese employees who reside there.
The Government of Mexico amounted to 103 yesterday in the number of suspicious deaths so far have been caused by the outbreak of swine flu that affects the country, for which 1614 people were hospitalized.
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