20 Jun 2009
A spokesman for the Department of Health (DH) today (June 20) said up to 2.30pm today, there were 20 newly confirmed cases of human swine influenza (Influenza A H1N1) in the past 24 hours.
Five of them are imported cases and 15 are local.
This brings to 255 the total number of human swine influenza (HSI) cases in Hong Kong.
The new cases involved 10 female and 10 male aged between 1 and 55 years old. All of them are in stable condition and will be arranged to public hospitals for isolation.
They are now in stable condition.
Among the new cases included a teacher of Ling Liang Church M H Lau Secondary School, a student of Renaissance College, a student of YMCA of Hong Kong Christian College, a student American International School and four students of Australian International School.
All these schools were already closed in the past days.
Investigations into the cases are ongoing.
The spokesman called on parents to pay attention to the health condition of their children, and to remind them to observe good personal and environmental hygiene.