Swine flu hotline to be launched today

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                  Swine flu hotline to be launched today
16 July 2009

         The Department of Health is to reveal a national swine flu phoneline, which will allow people to receive infection diagnoses, as early as today.
According to reports in The Times, the call centre will be the backbone of the National Pandemic Flu Service (NPFS) and is to be activated following a dramatic rise in the number of people with the H1N1 virus. 
The NPFS will allow quick diagnoses and provide reference number to callers with the infection who can get a friend or relative to use the number to collect medication for them. 
The Times said the decision to launch the flu line imminently was taken after the government’s emergency committee Cobra met yesterday morning. 
Figures from the Royal College of GPs yesterday showed the number of cases of swine flu had increased by nearly 50% in a week. 

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	Swine flu hotline to be launched today 16 July 2009 The Department of Health is to reveal a national swine flu phoneline, which will allow people to receive infection diagnoses, as early as today. According to reports in The Times, the call centre will be the backbone of the National Pandemic Flu Service (NPFS) and is to be activated following a dramatic rise in the number of people with the H1N1 virus. The NPFS will allow quick diagnoses and provide reference number to callers with the infection who can get a friend or relative to use the number to collect medication for them. The Times said the decision to launch the flu line imminently was taken after the government’s emergency committee Cobra met yesterday morning. Figures from the Royal College of GPs yesterday showed the number of cases of swine flu had increased by nearly 50% in a week.
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