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HONG KONG, June 20 (Xinhua) -- Twenty people were found ill with the A/H1N1 flu virus in Hong Kong during the past 24 hours as of 2:30 p.m. 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.
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