The dispute led to the closure of schools, libraries and council offices across the UK.
Heavy smog has been lingering in northern and eastern parts of China since last week, disturbing the traffic, worsening air pollution and forcing the closure of schools.
Some measures – such as the closure of schools and the metro – may be lifted on Wednesday, Michel told a press conference on Monday evening.
This year, strikes against a freeze on public sector wages created transportation chaos and forced a temporary closure of schools and hospitals.
Says Danon: "The swine flu outbreak of 2009 died down once the school holidays started, and one proposition for containing future epidemics and pandemics could be the closure of schools at critical moments.
Khan has said next week's protests will bring a million people onto the streets and sit-ins will force the closure of schools, public offices and the main international airport.
But the two fell out in 2013 after differences emerged over policies toward the Kurds, Israel and Iran, and over the proposed closure of schools controlled by the Gülenists.
The agency said it was aware of headteachers and governors considering temporary closure of schools as a precaution when suspected cases of infection were still under investigation but had yet to be confirmed.
Liberia and Sierra Leone have declared states of emergency, ordering the closure of schools and markets and the quarantining of affected communities in the face of the Ebola epidemic.
Whitehall ordering the closure of schools is only the start, the next step is that Gove and his civil servants will be managing thousands of funding agreements with individual schools at the expense of local accountability.
When non-local teachers exited this area en masse last year amid security fears, the local leadership negotiated with the central government to bring in local volunteers to plug the gap, avoiding the widespread closure of schools.
