Co-ordinating group set up as number of swine flu case rises

Thursday 30th July 2009, 2:58PM BST.

Chief Minister Terry Le Sueur

TWENTY-three new cases of swine flu were confirmed in Jersey last week, taking the total in the Island to 74.

In response to the growing threat of a mass outbreak, the Chief Minister, Senator Terry Le Sueur, is to hold regular meetings with ministers and other States officials to help departments respond to the effects the virus will have on the Island.

The co-ordinating group will organise States departments’ responses to the pandemic and will support the Health department’s management of the outbreak.

It is hoped that the meetings, which will be co-ordinated by the Chief Minister’s department, will help departments prepare for future developments, including a feared autumn outbreak of the virus.

The co-ordinating group will meet each week, but the number of meetings will increase if there is a more serious outbreak.

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darren

July 30, 2009 at 5:13 pm

Great idea, lets see them screw this one up as well. I have no faith in this lot and I know I’m not alone.

Disaster plans, contingencies, swine flu help lines (not manned at weekends, why not???).

Stick to doing what you’re good at – ruining the Island !!

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Bernard

July 30, 2009 at 5:36 pm

If TLS has anything to do with it, then we’re all doomed…

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Bernard

July 30, 2009 at 5:37 pm

So really there are only about 10 people with it as I presume all the others have recovered?

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Mogit

July 30, 2009 at 6:52 pm

Wake me up, when all this hype is over !

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bella

July 31, 2009 at 6:41 pm

It would just be taken over by more hype mogit.
will they ever stop this scare-mongering,or maybe their trying their best to stress us all out.

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Annie Du Feu

August 2, 2009 at 3:04 pm

Terry just stop all this pig Flu nonsense. You either get it or you don’t stop wasting paper, time and our money by sending out leaflets etc

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