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Ten secondary schools in Primorye’s town of Arseniev have been closed for a weeklong quarantine due to a sweeping flu virus infection.

Local educational and health care officials decided to introduce the quarantine since the schools remain half-empty during classes while students hit by the virus have to stay in their beds.

“The disease mostly hits those children and teenagers who were not vaccinated against the flu,” Natalya Goleva, a pediatrician in Arseniev children’s clinic said, Primorye Television cited her as saying. According to her, the symptoms include high temperature, feebleness and headache, which are then accompanied by coughing and other flu symptoms.

Doctors believe that the quarantine will help prevent a massive outbreak of the disease in schools.

Meanwhile, the flu epidemic has been reported in Russia’s nine cities of Astrakhan, Izhevsk, Magadan, Omsk, Perm, Khabarovsk, Chelyabinsk, Barnaul and Kemerovo. The level of the epidemic in the neighboring city of Khabarovsk has exceeded the acceptable amount of cases by four times.