Flu report won't close Pattaya hotels

There will be no closure of hotels in Pattaya even though two Taiwanese national claimed they had caught influenza type-A(H1N1) while traveling in the eastern resort of Pattaya.

“The Public Health Ministry must wait for an official report on whether or not they had really caught the swine flu virus from the resort city,'' Public Health Minister Witthaya Kaewoaradia said on Wednesday.

People and tourists should not panic about the report as his ministry has stepped up measures to prevent a pandemic of the deadly virus, he sid.