Guy Hands is not a member of the board of Four Seasons and is not involved in the company's decisions, including this closure decision, so it would not be appropriate".
A consultation can only be meaningful if it takes place in advance of any decision on closure.
The decision brings closure to countless Filipinos who can finally put an end to a widely divisive issue.
He said the decision on closures would be based on a "much broader" set of criteria.
Professor Chris Pepper, the School of Medicine's dean of research, admitted the university has "made some strategic decisions about closure of certain aspects of cardiovascular research".
"We would hope that heads can keep schools open while it is safe for them to do so, but decisions about closure have to be taken locally by those who know the local conditions".
"We will be monitoring the situation day by day and we would hope that headteachers can keep schools open while it is safe for them to do so, but decisions about closure have to be taken locally by those who know the local conditions".
Box 2 is a reconstruction of such a case to provide insights into how the relationship between biases formed at initiation may affect decisions at closure.
Since school closures to mitigate influenza epidemics have been standard policy in Japan for many years, the country has developed an efficient system to monitor absenteeism in schools, and make decisions on closure on the basis of that system.
Within tax-funded, state-managed health systems decisions about closure rely on a fragile constellation of actors including democratically-elected politicians, health service managers, staff, unions and professional bodies, and, of course, the public.
School health nurses who were in charge of gathering the data for their school were often overwhelmed so that the school data was generally not available for review until late afternoon and the decisions on closure could not take place until the evening - too late to inform parents.
