Sunday, June 14, 2009 BEIJING: China has reported 22 more cases of swine flu, bringing the total on the mainland to 165. The Ministry of Health said on its Web site Saturday that the cities of Beijing and Shanghai have reported more cases, as did provinces in central, eastern and southern China. The world's most populous country has quarantined travelers including New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin on the slightest suspicion of contact with an infected person, and has increased surveillance of the virus with temperature checks on incoming passengers at airports. There have been no reports of deaths. Hong Kong, which tallies swine flu cases separately, said Saturday it had confirmed five more cases, bringing the total tally to 78.
BAGHDAD: Nearly 500 U.S. Army combat engineers who specialize in clearing roads of explosives started shifting to southern Afghanistan."We are probably going to be the beginning of the influx you are going to see to Afghanistan," Lt. Col. Kevin Landers, commander of the Fort Carson, Colo.-based 4th Engineer Battalion, said as crews packed crates and cleaned vehicles for the flight to Kandahar.Obama has ordered 17,000 more U.S. soldiers and Marines to Afghanistan to bolster the 38,000 American troops already battling the resurgent Taliban."We are going to take this footprint out of Iraq," said Landers, whose battalion received word of its reassignment last month just after taking command of clearing roads in Baghdad of bombs and debris.
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