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Nearly a third of Hong Hong preschools hit by flu outbreaks, forcing seven-day closures
- Kindergartens and childcare centres bear brunt of new cases
- Kowloon City, Sha Tin and Tuen Mun have biggest increases over weekend, each with six more institutions hit
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Nearly a third of all preschool centres in Hong Kong had by Monday night reported a flu outbreak and suspended classes for a week.
That came after 67 more kindergartens and childcare centres joined the list, bringing the total amount of those affected to 301.
The new numbers from the Centre for Health Protection meant roughly 30 per cent of the city’s about 1,000 kindergartens and childcare centres were affected. The new cases were reported between 4pm on Saturday and the same time on Monday.
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Health authorities first announced the week-long suspensions for outbreak-hit institutions on Friday, as a way to curb the spread of flu, meaning some affected schools began their closure from Saturday. An outbreak at a school is defined as three cases in four days.
Dr Wong Ka-hing, the centre’s controller, had described the outbreaks as being at a “critical stage”, with the number of cases at a “very high level”.
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