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A masked girl sits with a classmate at a kindergarten in Hong Kong on Thursday. Authorities in the Chinese city ordered all primary schools to be closed for two weeks after the first cluster of local swine flu cases was found. The move came after 12 pupils at a city secondary school were found to have contracted the H1N1 virus. Later the same day, the World Health Organization declared the first global flu pandemic in 41 years and raised its alert level from five to it's highest, six. Since the outbreak of H1N1 in April, 27,737 cases have been reported in 74 countries and 141 people have died. Germany also reported new cases on Thursday, with 34 children infected at a Japanese school in Düsseldorf. More than 100 cases have been confirmed in the country.

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