An unusually high proportion of those infected and hospitalised with serious illness also happen to be young adults, teenagers and older children.
SHOOT: If you're a teacher (or student) then you're on the frontline, along with airline passengers and crews, airport personnel, nurses, doctors, pharmacists. Cluster appear to have emerged in Mexico, the USA, Britain, Australia and now Hong Kong.
HONG KONG, June 11 (Reuters) - Hong Kong confirmed its first local cluster of H1N1 cases on Thursday and said it would close all childcare centres and primary schools for two weeks.
"Twelve students at St Paul's are infected. As we can't find the source, we have determined that Hong Kong now has its first local spread (cluster) of the disease," Chief Executive Donald Tsang told reporters.
"In accordance with our plans, all kindergartens, primary schools, childcare centres and special schools will be suspended for 14 days from tomorrow," Tsang said.
The decision comes as the World Health Organization is poised to declare a global flu pandemic after a spike in H1N1 cases in Australia, which has recorded 1,263 cases of the new flu virus. Five people there have been admitted to intensive care.
There have been 27,737 cases reported in 74 countries to date, including 141 deaths, according to WHO's latest tally.
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