Twenty people were found ill with the A/H1N1 flu virus in Hong Kong during the past 24 hours as of 2:30 PM on Saturday, bringing the total number of infections in the city to 255, according to a spokesman of the HKSAR's Department of Health.

The spokesman said five of the confirmed patients caught the disease during their trips overseas and the rest 15 contracted locally.

The new cases involved 10 female and 10 male aged between 1 and55 years old. All of them are in stable condition and will be arranged to public hospitals for isolation.

They are now in stable condition, the spokesman said.

Among the new cases included a teacher of Ling Liang Church M HLau Secondary School, a student of Renaissance College, a student of YMCA of Hong Kong Christian College, a student of American International School and four students of Australian International School.

All these schools were already closed in the past days.

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.

(Xinhua News Agency June 21, 2009)