10m sit China's college entrance exams amid cheating, flu concerns

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-06-07 19:04

A doctor adjusts an equipment to measure the body temperature of examinees before the annual national college entrance examination in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong province, June 7, 2009. [Xinhua] 　

EXAM IN FLU SHADOW

After a rise in the number of A(H1N1) flu cases, China's education authorities laid out a national prevention plan to ensure the virus did not disrupt the annual exam.

Dai Jiagan, director of the National Educational Examination Administration, said Wednesday that the plan covered exam preparation, implementation and emergency response.

"We have based the plan on our experience of handling SARS in 2003," he said. "The exam must be safe and fair, and the government has the duty to protect its security."

Each exam room is disinfected twice a day and every examinee is required to have their body temperature measured before entering the rooms.

"I guess it will make me a little more nervous because I'm used to having my temperature measured only in hospital," said Li Hui before entering the exam center in Guangzhou. "But I totally understand it."

Separate exam rooms have been prepared for the exam takers showing flu and fever symptoms. As of Sunday morning, no such rooms had been used.

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