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A spokesman for the Department of Health (DH) today (May 4) said in the 24 hours to 12 noon yesterday (May 3), 15 people fulfilling human swine influenza (Influenza A H1N1) reporting criteria were reported to the Centre for Health Protection (CHP).
"Ten of them are tested negative to human swine influenza. Laboratory results of the remaining five people are still pending. They are in stable condition," he said.
Under the current surveillance system, the CHP should be notified when people with fever and respiratory symptoms and coming from places with human swine influenza cases were detected.
As of today, 27 hotel guests and 26 staff had been transferred from Metropark Hotel in Wan Chai to Lady Maclehose Holiday Village.
Up to 4pm yesterday, the CHP's hotline 2125 1111 has received 1,056 calls since it was set up on April 30.
A daily update on swine influenza in humans is now available on the CHP website (www.chp.gov.hk).
Ends/Monday, May 4, 2009
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