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What the closures mean for you and your children

Some 1,800 primary schools, kindergartens, child care centres and special schools shut for two weeks.

Education chief advises parents to keep children at home.

Some organisations suspend tutorials and courses for children. Some public facilities for children to close.

Eight clinics for swine flu cases to open, each able to treat 120 people a day.

Children under two, pregnant women and the chronically sick will be admitted to hospital if they become infected.

Government to decide by June 23 whether to extend school closures. If closure extends to July 10, pupils will not need to return to class.

If classes resume before July 10, exams for Primary Five students, which affect their choice of secondary schools, may be held then. If closure extends to July 10, schools to make arrangements for pupils to sit them over the summer.

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