KUALA LUMPUR Adidas Originals Superstar 2 Bling Blancas Plata Baratas , Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- Seven people are being treated for H1N1 at the Likas Women and Children's Hospital, and the entire ward at the hospital has been quarantined, according to local media reports on Thursday.
The Star, an English-language newspaper in Malaysia, quoted hospital director Tan Bee Hwai as saying that five children and two adult caregivers had been tested positive for the flu virus.
The entire ward at the hospital located some 10 km from downtown Kota Kinabalu has been quarantined, it said, adding that this included the patients, the caregivers and staff of the ward.
According to another Malaysian English language newspaper The New Straits Times, seven children are being treated at the Likas Women and Children's Hospital for H1N1, whose conditions were all under control after the first incident was found on Jan. 29.
The State Health Department is expected to issue a statement on the cases.
DHAKA, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- Dhaka has virtually turned into a " forbidden city" as all modes of transport bound for the capital stopped plying between the city and outflying Bangladesh places in an apparent move to keep the opposition men refrained from their march slated for Sunday.
Transporters said they had been asked by the ruling party, allegedly backed by law enforcers, to halt operations for two days to thwart anarchy due to the long march.
Fears of a new round of violence in the coming days have raised in the already political crisis-ridden Bangladesh as main opposition alliance is set to hold its long march on Dec. 29, demanding parliament polls under a caretaker government.
Former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia on Tuesday night through a press conference urged people from all strata of life to join the march toward capital Dhaka on Dec. 29 to put pressure on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's government to scrap the parliamentary elections.
Khaleda Zia made the plea at the end of the fifth spell of countrywide blockade enforced by her 18-party alliance.
Hasina's ruling Bangladesh Awami League (AL) party has already vowed to resist the program and asked its leaders and activists to guard all the entry points of Dhaka.
"Guard all the eight entry points of Dhaka so that even a fly cannot enter in the Dhaka city," Mofazzal Hossain Maya, a senior AL leader, said in meeting of his party men on Saturday.
Speaking in the same meeting, another AL Leader Qamrul Islam, also a member of Prime Minister Hasina's polls-time interim cabinet, asked his party men to guard streets until Jan. 5 elections carrying sticks in their hands.
Sources said the government is worried as a large number of opposition men have already slipped into the capital in the last two days.
Khaleda, who also virtually remained confined to her residence as detectives and uniformed policemen surrounded her residence since Tuesday, through a video message on Friday evening urged countrymen to march towards Dhaka. "I urge all to converge in the capital city on Dec. 29 to save democracy though I can't stay with you."
She has directed the opposition leaders and activists to defy any government obstructions and make the program a success.
Senior BNP leader Osman Faruk told reporters Friday that Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) had not yet given permission to opposition BNP for staging a march after rally in front of its headquarters in Dhaka's downtown Naya Paltan area on Dec. 29.
BNP spokesman Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday stated machinery barricaded all public transport services including bus, train and launch to foil opposition march.
Sources said transport associations loyal to the ruling party virtually halted traffic movement in Dhaka and elsewhere in the country in an effort to thwart the program designed to halt the January 5 parliamentary election, leading English newspaper The Daily Star reported Saturday.
It said office-goers and other professionals were seen waiting at different bus stoppages and along the city streets for a long time waiting for buses to go to their destinations.
Terming the rush towards the capital ahead of the opposition's 'Dhaka march' illegal, Additional Inspector General of Police Shahidul Haque has said the police would resist people coming to join the program.
"Police will resist.. as the program has no permission," the police official was quoted as saying Saturday in a report of The Daily Star.
Police have reportedly detained hundreds of leaders and activists of BNP and its key ally Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami party from various parts of the country.
Law enforcement agencies have launched a crackdown on the Opposition activists across the country since the announcement of the Dhaka march and the rally, leading local news agency bdnews24. com reported Saturday.
Khaleda Zia's BNP and its 17 allies have asked Hasina to bring back a non-party caretaker system, or else the opposition won't participate in the next election because it fears an election without the non-party caretaker government will not be free and fair.
Some 21 opposition parties including BNP are boycotting the elections over Hasina's refusal for non-party interim government to oversee the elections.
Hasina's AL party ruled out Khaleda's calls for canceling the Jan. 5 polls. Khaleda's 18-party opposition alliance has enforced prolonged blockades after the Election Commission on Nov. 25 announced the schedule for the 10th parliamentary polls. Scores of people including ruling and opposition men were dead and hundreds others injured in wide spread violence since Nov. 26.