Azerbaijan’s tourism minister hopes swine flu will not affect country’s tourism

People are traveling and communicating with each other which increases threat of infection”, Minister of Culture and Tourism Abulfas Garayev told reporters.

The minister said quick reaction of the Health Ministry to disease showed that necessary measures would be taken to prevent the virus from spreading.

“We are instructing our tourists to be careful while traveling,” he said.

Azerbaijani health ministry registered the first two A/H1N1 cases on July 30. The  infected individuals caught the disease in France and the United Kingdom.

/APA/