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schools and kindergartens in Gobi-Altai aimag may be closed down as hepatitis
continues to spread there. The rising number of cases has led to extra beds
being put in the infectious department of the aimag’s central hospital. Since
there are not enough facilities to treat children there, 30 of them have been
brought to the Center of Infectious Disease Research in Ulaanbaatar. 

B.Munkhzaya, of the Media department of the Governor’s Office in Gobi-Altai
aimag, said most of the 370 people treated in the hospital were children. Two
secondary schools and one kindergarten in Altai, the aimag center, have been
temporarily closed. A medical team is at work to trace the origin of the
infection.